uneven across countries and between subregions. East Asia - particularly the People's Republic of China (PRC) - outperformed … largest number of the world's poor. In 2008, around 63% of the poor worldwide lived in the region. …

panel data from rural China, this paper attempt to assess the extent to which we can measure vulnerability to poverty. The …

by the incumbent poor. The decomposition is applied to appraising poverty trends in China between 1988 and 1996. The …

inland than in coastal China. The empirical application requires household or individual income observations which, generally … observations from grouped income data. It is found that inland China is poorer than coastal China, mainly due to lower efficiency … in resource utilization not to less endowment of resources. Also, trade became poverty-reducing in coastal China in the …

decomposition ; China …

determining poverty levels and poverty changes in rural China. …

of poverty in China in the 1990s. The changes in poverty trends are attributed to two proximate causes; income growth and … and favourable distributional changes can explain China’s remarkable achievement in combating poverty in rural areas in … the first half of the 1990s; (2) in the second half of the 1990s, both rural and urban China suffered from rapidly rising …

panel data from rural China, this paper attempt to assess the extent to which we can measure vulnerability to poverty. The …