by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … growing more rapidly. The trend whereby fewer persons in urban China have incomes that are lower than the poverty line … continued. This also applied to the number of people falling below the relative poverty line. …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … Göteborg for the years 1925, 1936, 1947, 1958 as well as more recent (1983, 1994 and 2003) information. We define poverty as … living in a household with a disposable income lower than a poverty line that represents a constant purchasing power all …