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Urbanization, Inequality, and Poverty in the People's Republic of China

Zhang, Yuan - 2016

Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China …

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Almås, Ingvild; Johnsen, Åshild A.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2014 - This version June, 2014

measurement. We measure the percentage of populated areas in China with no nighttime light, and the percentage of the population … living in these areas.Between 1992 and 2005, both measures reveal a steady decrease in poverty in China. From 2005 to 2010 …

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The socioeconomic determinants of urban poverty in Saudi Arabia

Al Lily, Miriam; Waibel, Hermann - 2021

This paper presents results from one of the first independent socioeconomic household surveys to study urban poverty among Saudi nationals. This survey was administered to 496 Saudi households in Dammam in 2019. Poverty is conceptualised as relative poverty, which is based on the country’s...

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Social Assistance Receipt and its Importance for Combating Poverty in Urban China

Gustafsson, Björn - 2007

Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income … survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002, we investigate factors affecting receipt and how receipt affects urban … while having been sent to rural China during the Cultural Revolution increases it. For some types of households, receipt of …

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Do government transfers reduce poverty in China? : micro evidence from five regions

Westmore, Ben - 2017

, Guangdong, Henan and Gansu) in 2014 using representative household level data from the China Family Panel Studies survey. The …

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Recovery with distress : unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in Bangladesh

Rahman, Hussain Zillur; Rahman, Atiya; Faruk, Md. Saiful; … - 2022

The social and ecomomic impact of COVID-19 has been deep, wide-ranging, and multidimensional. While anecdotal evidence of distress among the poor, particularly those with informal occupations, has been widespread, effective policy response has required real-time, researched data disaggregated...

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If Seebohm Rowntree Had Studied Sweden : How Poverty Changed in the City of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003

Gustafsson, Björn - 2014

This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of Göteborg for the years 1925, 1936, 1947, 1958 as well as more recent (1983, 1994 and 2003) information. We define poverty as living in a household with a disposable income lower...

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The face of urban poverty : explaining the prevalence of slums in developing countries

Arimah, Ben C. - 2010

One of the most visible and enduring manifestations of urban poverty in developing countries is the formation and proliferation of slums. While attention has focused on the rapid pace of urbanization as the sole or major factor explaining the proliferation of slums and squatter settlements in...

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The excluded poor : how targeting has left out the poor in peripheral cities in the Philippines

Canares, Michael P. - 2010

Constrained by resource limitations and challenged by the increasing incidence of poverty in the country, the Philippine government embarked on an anti-poverty programme that sought to identify where the poorest people were, what were their specific needs, and how government and other...

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Poverty and ethnicity in Asian countries

Gradín, Carlos - 2016

This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in six Asian countries using demographic surveys. We first estimate a composite wealth index as a proxy for economic status, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute...

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