einigerUnzulänglichkeiten in der Lage ist, die wirtschaftlicheEntwicklung in China zu erklären und Leitlinien für dieImplementierung politischer …The thesis studies the applicability of the HarrisTodaro model to rural-to-urban migration processes in …

This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the determinants of income inequality in Uganda. Over the past 10 years …, Uganda experienced gradual and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The benefits of growth, however, are not … contribution of each income source to overall inequality; (ii) Decomposition of consumption expenditure into subgroups in order to …

issues fromaccess to education and health services, consumption patterns, to the impact on poverty,inequality, and labor …In recent years, reducing poverty has been a core objective of social policy in Latin America. In2008, the incidence of … poverty reached almost a third of the population, of which 13 percent areclassified as extremely poor. Most Latin American …

This thesis consists of three empirical chapters related to distributional outcomes, such as poverty and inequality, in … urban inequality.Chapter 3 examines the impacts of the 2001 U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement on provincial poverty … bivariate poverty is lower in Germany than in either the UK or the USA. On the other hand, poverty comparisons between the UK …

in recent decades in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequality on a global scale, which this century … has been an influential actor in the policies to tackle inequality and poverty worldwide. The historical account of the …

in recent decades in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequality on a global scale, which this century … has been an influential actor in the policies to tackle inequality and poverty worldwide. The historical account of the …

We document the evolution of the income distribution in rural China, from 1987 through 1999, with an emphasis on … investigating increases in inequality associated with transition and economic development. With a backdrop of perceived improvements … in average living standards, we ask whether increases of inequality may have offset, or even threaten welfare gains …

Hongbin Li, evaluates the impact of the 8-7 Plan, the second wave of China's poverty alleviation program, on rural income …My dissertation is composed of three essays on Development Economics in China. The first chapter, co-authored with …'s pre-program income fell below a given poverty line, a regression discontinuity approach is employed to estimate causal …