resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has … hand, poverty increased in absolute terms. In contrast in the following years of rapid economic growth, the growth in the … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … adult children or with other adults have kept poverty rates among the increasing number of elderly in urban China from … 2013 urban residents in China changed their assessment of how much money that is necessary. Data from the China Household …

Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty … hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed …

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 … was slower in the lower part of the income distribution and thus the trend of increased income inequality in urban China …

Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …