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Convergence in Food Consumption in Rural China : Evidence from Household Survey Data
Wan, Guanghua - 2005
a set of panel data from China, and to discuss various implications of research results. Major findings of the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066903
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The inequality-growth nexus in the short and long runs: Empirical evidence from China
Wan, Guanghua; Lu, Ming; Chen, Zhao - 2006
equations, we analyze the growth–inequality relationship in postreform China, finding that this relationship is nonlinear and is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284551
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The impacts of growth and inequality on rural poverty in China
Zhang, Yin; Wan, Guanghua - 2006
This paper analyzes the evolution of poverty in China from the late 1980s to the late 1990s, employing a version of … ; Shapley decomposition ; unit-record data ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284589
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Why do poverty rates differ from region to region? The case of urban China
Zhang, Yin; Wan, Guanghua - 2005
decomposition ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284722
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Globalization and the urban poor in China
Zhang, Yin; Wan, Guanghua - 2006
This paper examines the distributional impact of globalization on the poor in urban China. Employing the kernel density … influence of several other variables. – globalization ; poverty ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284754
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Poverty reduction in China: Trends and causes
Zhang, Yin; Wan, Guanghua - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284868
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Globalization and the Urban Poor in China
Zhang, Yin; Wan, Guanghua - Department of Economics Studies, University of Dundee - 2006
This paper examines the distributional impact of globalization on the poor in urban China. Employing the kernel density …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001710
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The size distribution and growth pattern of cities in China, 1982-2010 : analysis and policy implications
Chan, Kam Wing; Wan, Guanghua - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 22 (2017) 1, pp. 136-155
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Accelerating urbanization explained: The role of information
Wan, Guanghua; Zhang, Yan - 2017
In this paper, we argue that urbanization has accelerated in the last few decades, and that this largely overlooked phenomenon cannot be explained by existing empirical models of urbanization. Consequently, we explicitly bring forward the role of information in driving urbanization, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688696
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Structural transformation, growth, and inequality: Evidence from Viet Nam
Sarma, Vengadeshvaran; Paul, Saumik; Wan, Guanghua - 2017
We examine whether structural transformation leads to growth and income inequality in Viet Nam. Using three rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (2002, 2006, and 2010), we estimate re-centered influence functions to construct a decomposition analysis. Our results indicate that...
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