its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …

To examine poverty on China's campuses, we utilize the Chinese College Students Survey carried out in 2010. With … poverty line defined as the college-specific expenditures a student needs to maintain the basic living standard on campus, we … find that 22 percent of college students in China are living in poverty. Poverty is more severe among students from the …

poverty. Results from estimating probability models indicate that social assistance receipt is strongly linked to joblessness …. However, as the Di Bao payments typically are small and many of the urban poor are not receivers, much urban poverty remains …

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … empirical evidence for boys. Our findings suggest that the new anti-poverty program in China has the potential to ameliorate the …

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … empirical evidence for boys. Our findings suggest that the new anti-poverty program in China has the potential to ameliorate the …

This paper tries to make a comparative study of poverty reduction in India and China during 1990s. This study could … find that there are many factors in common between these two countries in their road to poverty reduction. It has been … observed that in both India and China the absolute poverty levels have fallen ever since the liberalization process has started …

Using rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces, this paper identifies determinants of long-term poverty … and tests the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Special emphasis is given to the selection of the … poverty line and inter-regional differences across provinces. Results suggest that the majority of population seems to be only …

Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …

While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and … pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic … the rural sector greatly slowed poverty reduction. Provinces starting with relatively high inequality saw slower progress …

During the 1990s, China's poverty declined significantly across a wide range of poverty lines. China's poor have … benefited much less from economic growth than the rich. Education is positively and significantly related to growth and poverty … attack poverty and inequality. Chen and Wang investigate recent trends in poverty and inequality in China, decomposing data …