A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of … the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a … reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam poverty line becomes a weighted average of the absolute poverty line …

In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical … Insurance, for urban residents without formal employment, including children, the elderly, and other unemployed urban residents …

household members. The paper also aims to find out how poverty lines and poverty counts derived from people's perception relate … to what has been previously reported. Design/methodology/approach – The Subjective Poverty Line (SPL) methodology is … young children need less grain than adults and that a schoolchild incurs higher money expenditures than an adult. A poverty …

household members. The paper also aims to find out how poverty lines and poverty counts derived from people's perception relate … to what has been previously reported. Design/methodology/approach – The Subjective Poverty Line (SPL) methodology is … young children need less grain than adults and that a schoolchild incurs higher money expenditures than an adult. A poverty …

China’s poverty can be attributed to households living outside classified poor areas. People living in a household with many …Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … asked two questions: one on amount of food necessary and another on amount of cash necessary for their households. The …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …

households more security for spending that could reduce the high savings rate and help achieve a balanced growth path in the long …