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Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income … mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 …
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This paper analyses the pattern and determinants of income risk and expectation in rural India. It uses unique primary survey data eliciting subjective income distribution from households in twelve villages in Bihar. It finds that expected future income is significantly and positively associated...
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. The paper ends with an empirical illustration comparing rural and urban and areas in the People's Republic of China and …
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The North Indian village of Palanpur has been the subject of close study over a period of six decades from 1957/8 to 2015. Himanshu et al. (2018) have documented the evolution of the village economy over this period in an exhaustive study entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and...
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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This paper considers the impact of agriculture and international trade development on income distribution and economic activity in Mozambique. A social accounting matrix multiplier decomposition model is used -- in particular, an extension of the standard model that details the process of income...
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This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China … in rural China would decrease only marginally if such disparities were to vanish. In contrast the spatial dimension is … much more important for income inequality and for wealth inequality in rural China. -- China ; elites ; cadre …
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provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much …
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What drives livelihood diversification among predominantly rural households in developing countries and how can welfare-enhancing patterns be established and sustained in the long run? A large literature has focused on whether income diversification is a means of survival or a means of...
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We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although … expenditure is more unequally distributed than income in urban areas. China has a much stronger correlation in individual ranks …
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