political spectrum have argued that network effects have given rise to a culture of poverty. Empirical work, however, has found …

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … urban-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Since an uncertain income stream is worth … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient …

In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China's Dibao program aims to fill all poverty … gaps. In theory, the program creates a poverty trap, with 100% benefit withdrawal rate (BWR). But is that what we see in …, and is also lower than the rate implied by optimal income tax models for poverty reduction. The paper discusses likely …

sides. The paper estimates how much of China’s poverty rate around 1980—near the outset of Deng Xiaoping’s pro … China’s poverty in 1980 is attributed to the impact of the Maoist path since 1950. Further checks and tests suggest that (if … anything) this is likely to be an underestimate. It took 10-20 years for China’s post-reform economy to make up the lost ground …