This paper proposes a decomposition framework for quantifying contributions of the determinants of poverty to spatial … differences or temporal changes in poverty. This framework is then applied to address the issue why poverty incidence is higher in … in resource utilization not to less endowment of resources. Also, trade became poverty-reducing in coastal China in the …

of poverty in China in the 1990s. The changes in poverty trends are attributed to two proximate causes; income growth and … datasets and alternative assumptions about poverty lines and equivalence. Among the robust results are: (i) both income growth … and favourable distributional changes can explain China’s remarkable achievement in combating poverty in rural areas in …

This paper proposes a framework for incorporating longitudinal distributional changes into poverty decomposition. It is … by the incumbent poor. The decomposition is applied to appraising poverty trends in China between 1988 and 1996. The … insights into poverty dynamics. …

This paper proposes a semi-parametric method for poverty decomposition, which combines the data-generating procedure of … is applied to decomposing variations of urban poverty across the Chinese provinces into three components – contributions … by the differences in average nominal income, inequality and poverty line. The results foreground average income as the …