the perspective of economic growth, it requires the low- and middle-income groups to gain more from the growth than high-income … employment and improve the income structure of the residents, and second to improve the accuracy in designing redistribution …

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project … growing more rapidly. The trend whereby fewer persons in urban China have incomes that are lower than the poverty line …

, 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 …

We study happiness adaptation to income and poverty using an individual panel data on life satisfaction of 10046 … subjects living in China from 2010 to 2018. We find robust evidence of adaptation to both income and poverty. The adaptation to … poverty result is new to the literature, whereas adaptation to income at four-year length is in line with the previous …

New tools allow one to study the incidence of economic growth by initial level of income, and to measure the rate of …