This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …

poverty. The report finds that China has made substantial progress in economic development since economic reform started in … in the incidence of poverty. Productivity performance has not been uniform across the agricultural and industrial sectors …, but both have contributed to aggregate growth and poverty reduction. Unfortunately economic reform has also brought …

in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …

China has experienced rapid integration into the global economy and achieved remarkable progress in poverty reduction … 1986- 2002, and applying the endogenous threshold regression techniques, we empirically investigate the globalization-poverty … results provide strong evidence to suggest that there exists a threshold in the relationship between globalization and poverty …

in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …