This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

This study aims to investigate the role of economic growth and inflation in explaining the prevalence of poverty in … poverty, economic growth, inflation, investment and trade openness over the period of 1972-2008. Empirical results show that … economic growth and investment have negative and inflation has positive impact on poverty. The effect of trade openness on …

some policy simulation pertinent to poverty and welfare. …

economic output, in particular, the welfare of the very poor, are increasingly brought onto the agenda. The purpose of this …

This article has developed a new model of welfare dynamics under imperfect information or imperfect competition by … introducing a new concept of ‘inefficient welfare equilibrium’. It assumes that an economy can be split into two virtual parts …. For one part the fundamental welfare theorems are valid and for the other part welfare is yet to achieve. This model is …

welfare and poverty. …

assesses impact of agricultural land on poverty and inequality in rural Vietnam. It is found that agricultural land increases …, agricultural land helps poverty reduction. Due to agricultural land, the headcount of poverty for land holders is reduced by around … 1.2 percentage points. Agricultural land also decreases the poverty-gap and poverty-severity indexes for the land …

, including data on the level of poverty and inequality in Jordan. Part 2 discusses the challenges and opportunities facing …