This article examines the determinants of household income among urban and rural areas in India and evaluates … characteristics of the head of the household (age, educational level, marital status, and gender) and household characteristics (main … occupational type, household size, and social status) on monthly per capita expenditure through conditional mean least squares (LS …

aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper …

Purpose – Using official and household survey data, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the size of middle class in … rural China, its trend and geographical distribution. Determinants or drivers of changes in the size of middle class are … middle class in rural China. Findings – Major findings include: in 2007, as many as 398 million rural residents or almost 54 …

China has been running a large trade surplus with the rest of the world, particularly with the USA and EU. This has …, mostly focus on real exchange rate and income as determinants of China's trade imbalances. Little attention has been given to … literature by adding FDI to China's trade balance model. Fitting aggregate annual data from 1979 to 2007 to SURE (Seemingly …

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 …