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 …

and growth since then has revealed that the impacts of economic growth on poverty, as observed in practice, can be … poverty with respect to changes in the mean of the distribution of income, thus analytically linking the poverty measures to … key macroeconomic aggregates. Numerous insights are found in Kakwani's elasticities. However, the literature on poverty …

. The results indicate large gains from tradeable assignments after first randomizing. The gains exceed those from poverty …

In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has … past economic progress, including poverty reduction. The paper does not find robust time-series evidence of polarizing … effects alongside either economic growth or population urbanization (including among those below the national median). There …

economic growth in upcoming years. We first analyze the economic effects of changing working-age shares in a standard empirical … growth model using country panel data from 1950-2015. We then juxtapose the estimates with predicted shifts in population age … structure to project economic growth in 2020-2050. Our results indicate that population aging will slow economic growth …