households’ performance with different characteristics in terms of poverty. It uses four rounds of data from the consumer …, and living in less-developed states are more likely to be in poverty. In the second part, the article explores stochastic … targeted for poverty alleviation strategies. The first part sheds light on key determinants of household expenditure, while the …

This paper aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and … individual economies. Efforts are made to explain these trends and explore the interrelationship between growth, poverty, and … inequality in Asia. Analytical results confirm significant reductions in poverty across the board due to fast growth, although …

Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005-2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008 - from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing … the percentage of people living under the $1.25 per day poverty line to 21.9% from 27.1% in 2005. Poverty reduction was …

exploring the role of globalization in driving the labor share. In particular, we focus on the impacts of trade openness and …

There are alternative definitions of vulnerability to poverty. Most researchers prefer to define vulnerability as the … probability of a household or individual falling into poverty in the future. Based on this definition and using household survey … panel data from rural China, this paper attempt to assess the extent to which we can measure vulnerability to poverty. The …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing …

This paper proposes a decomposition framework for quantifying contributions of the determinants of poverty to spatial … differences or temporal changes in poverty. This framework is then applied to address the issue why poverty incidence is higher in … in resource utilization not to less endowment of resources. Also, trade became poverty-reducing in coastal China in the …

of poverty in China in the 1990s. The changes in poverty trends are attributed to two proximate causes; income growth and … datasets and alternative assumptions about poverty lines and equivalence. Among the robust results are: (i) both income growth … and favourable distributional changes can explain China’s remarkable achievement in combating poverty in rural areas in …