This symposium contains three papers on poverty and inequality in China. The issues surrounding inequality have been …

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … poverty point to the policy conclusion that poverty may be a less serious social problem than it appears in annual data due to …

rural incomes in China. Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decomposes poverty into … poverty gap attributable to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50 % transient … poverty point to the policy conclusion that poverty may be a less serious social problem than it appears in annual data due to …

Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decompose poverty into chronic and transient … components using longitudinal survey data and assesses the fraction of the Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke poverty gap attributable … to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50% transient poverty point to the …

equate the expected urban wage (given a downward rigid real wage in the urban sector) to the real wage. Unemployment is … endogenously determined. Interpreting unemployment as damage, urban pollution (damage denoted in units of labour) can also support … the same equilibrium with the value of damage equal to the value of resources otherwise lost through unemployment. However …