well-designed social protection policies.This paper - a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group - is part …

While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and … pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic … the rural sector greatly slowed poverty reduction. Provinces starting with relatively high inequality saw slower progress …

unobserved) household characteristics. Geographic poverty traps are common. There also appears to be a high degree of transient … poverty associated with poorly developed risk markets. The paper argues that poor-area programs make sense in China, given … that where you live constrains prospects of escaping poverty, including by out-migration. However, such programs alone are …

poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor … the measurement assumptions. With only a modest allowance for leisure as a basic need, the effort-adjusted poverty rate in …

reforms with well-designed social protection policies. – trade ; globalization ; poverty ; inequality ; China ; Morocco …