outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …

China's remarkable poverty alleviation is quite uneven across regions in the last quarter of the century. It is … important to explore why China has such huge disparity in poverty distribution in spite of overall dramatic economic growth and … the issue of regional disparities in poverty distribution in China. It finds an increasing concentration of the rural poor …

poverty in other developing countries can be analysed. It then applies this framework to twelve countries, six in Asia and six …

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …