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What can new survey data tell us about recent changes in distribution and poverty?

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1996

-93, though experiences differed across regions and countries. There was no general tendency for inequality or polarization to …

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China's growth and poverty reduction - trends between 1990 and 1999

Chen, Shaohua; Wang, Yan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

The authors investigate recent rends in poverty, and inequality in China, decomposing data on poverty reduction to see … attributable to Asia's economic crisis. Economic growth contributed significantly to poverty reduction, but rising inequality … problem if it is to succeed in attacking poverty, and inequality. …

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Household welfare impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

household-level data imposing minimum aggregation. The authors find negligible impacts on inequality and poverty in the …

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Measuring pro-poor growth

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

It is important to know how aggregate economic growth or contraction was distributed according to initial levels of living. In particular, to what extent can it be said that growth was"pro-poor?"There are problems with past methods of addressing this question, notably that the measures used are...

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How did the world's poorest fare in the 1990s ?

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2000

Drawing on data from 265 national sample surveys spanning 83 countries, the authors find that there was a net decrease in the total incidence of consumption poverty between 1987 and 1998. But it was not enough to reduce the total number of poor people, by various definitions. The incidence of...

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Hidden impact ? Ex-post evaluation of an anti-poverty program

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

By the widely used difference-in-difference method, the Southwest China Poverty Reduction Project had little impact on the proportion of people in beneficiary villages consuming less than $1 a day-despite a public outlay of $400 million. Is that right, or is the true impact being hidden somehow?...

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Is poverty increasing in the developing world?

Chen, Shaohua; Datt, Gaurav; Ravallion, Martin - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1993

The authors assess the developing world's progress in reducing absolute-consumption poverty during 1981-91, using new data on the distribution of household consumption or income per capita for 40 countries (at two points in time for 18 of the countries). They apply dominance tests to the...

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When economic reform is faster than statistical reform - measuring and explaining inequality in rural China

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998

Official tabulations from household survey data suggest rising income inequality in post-reform rural China, a trend of … increase in inequality in 1985-90 vanishes when market-based valuation methods are used and allowances are made for regional … cost-of-living differences. The data revisions also suggest somewhat different explanations for rising inequality. Nonfarm …

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Benefit incidence with incentive effects, measurement errors and latent heterogeneity

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013

Empirical studies of tax and benefit incidence routinely ignore behavioral responses and measurement errors. This paper offers an econometric method of estimating the mean benefit withdrawal rate (marginal tax rate) allowing for incentive effects, measurement errors, and correlated latent...

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Di Bao : a guaranteed minimum income in urban China?

Chen, Shaohua; Ravallion, Martin; Wang, Youjuan - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006

Concerns about incentives and targeting naturally arise when cash transfers are used to fight poverty. The authors address these concerns in the context of China's Di Bao program, which uses means-tested transfers to try to assure that no registered urban resident has an income below a...

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