Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim; Giles, John - 2010
applies these tools to the measurement of chronic and transient poverty in China using a rich panel data set that extends over …The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, it proposes a new approach … to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, it provides corrections for the statistical biases …