poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 ….5 times that of local resident households, we find relatively small differences in the poverty rates of migrants and local …

address housing policy issues in China. One of the main concerns in Chinese cities is the raise of poverty mainly by illegal … migrants (who are Chinese rural residents) living in urban villages. We propose two steps to fight against poverty in Chinese … case, to fight against poverty, one can either implement place-targeted policies (like the enterprise zone programs in the …

people into a position of long-term poverty or serious liquidity problems. …

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 …

This paper argues that both openness and poverty in a country are endogenously determined by the country’s long …

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 …