The impact of prior economic growth on current poverty rates within provincial-level China is examined using panel data and semiparametric techniques. Results reveal that prior short-run growth raises poverty levels; prior long-run growth increases poverty in slow-growing provinces, while...

The invulnerability or robustness of complex networks against cascading failures under critical node failures is of great realistic meaning. Inspired by other related works, we propose a renewed cascading failure model which should be more suitable for real networks. In this model, the initial...

China in the 1990s was a large labor-abundant country at its early phase of global integration. This paper develops a framework that applies a Gini-coefficient–related measure of income inequality to the Heckscher–Ohlin model and analyzes the effects on income inequality of economic openness...