This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households in 1993–2005. Our estimates, based on Engel curves for food consumption, indicate an average per capita income growth of 6.8 percent per year in 1993–2005. This...

Discusses which countries have low and which have high Gini coefficients as well as relationships with the incomes of the poor and the rich.

Proposes a methodology for measuring national poverty lines.