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 …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

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

available to all low and middle-income families regardless of earnings or income. We estimate the anti-poverty, targeting, and … of the CTC would reduce child poverty by 34% and deep child poverty by 39%. The expansion of the CTC would have a larger … anti-poverty effect on children than any existing government program, though at a higher cost per child raised above the …

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 …