The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as “China’s Kuznets curve.” We show that … agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed …

The widely held view that China has greatly reduced income poverty over the last 40 years does not accord with all the … is easily understood, since such measures depend solely on relative distribution, and inequality in China has been rising …

sides. The paper estimates how much of China's poverty rate around 1980--near the outset of Deng Xiaoping's pro … China's poverty in 1980 is attributed to the impact of the Maoist path since 1950. Further checks and tests suggest that (if … anything) this is likely to be an underestimate. It took 10-20 years for China's post-reform economy to make up the lost ground …

Data from China`s national rural and urban household surveys are used to measure and explain the welfare impacts of …

In 2005, China participated for the first time in the International Comparison Program (ICP), which collects primary … implications of the new Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) rate (derived by the ICP) for China's poverty rate (by international … China than past estimates, with about 15% of the population living in consumption poverty, implying about 130 million more …

-based poverty program in the world, namely China's Di Bao program, which aims to assure a minimum income through means …

The paper revisits the site of a large, World Bank-financed, rural development program in China 10 years after it began …