We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing …

There are alternative definitions of vulnerability to poverty. Most researchers prefer to define vulnerability as the … probability of a household or individual falling into poverty in the future. Based on this definition and using household survey … panel data from rural China, this paper attempt to assess the extent to which we can measure vulnerability to poverty. The …

, followed by the PRC, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan. While a significant number moved out of extreme poverty, the number …Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005–2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008 - from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing …

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 …