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 …

and poverty reduction. The organization of the paper is as follows. Section 2 makes a brief review of the economic … section argues that the superior economic performance (in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction) of the authoritarian …

poverty worldwide. But the impacts of global trade policy and domestic development policy reforms are rarely, if ever …-benefit analysis, this paper contributes at filling this gap by focusing on the comparison of the distributional poverty impacts of … world would impact poverty in Malawi. The country’s recent agricultural growth history due to the Fertilizer Input Subsidy …

urban inequality, a reduction in urban poverty, and a lower level of overall inclusive growth of a city. …

and poverty reduction using quarter frequency data in case of Pakistan over the period of 1972-2011. We applied the ARDL … between financial deepening, economic growth and poverty reduction exists in case of Pakistan. The causality analysis implied … that causality results are sensitive with the use of proxy for poverty reduction as well as methodology to be applied. …

This paper analyses the relations between poverty, inequality and economic growth in Brazil. First of all, based on … recent research, it shows characteristics and historical evolution of inequality and poverty. These characteristics are not … growth and inequality on poverty and agree with both empirical evidences from recent papers and results found by those …

persistence of poverty and possible aggregate economic inefficiencies. We propose a microeconomic formalization of one possible … definition of poverty and of the behaviour of poor and rich agents. Poverty is defined as lack of or low societal participation …, which is source of both a direct private benefit and an indirect gain. Analysing poverty under the individual rational …