In most developing countries, income inequality tends to worsen during initial stages of growth, especially in urban … areas. The People's Republic of China (PRC) provides a sharp contrast where income inequality among urban households is … of time may mitigate the impacts of widening income inequality measured using crosssectional data. We explore several …

Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decompose poverty into chronic and transient … components using longitudinal survey data and assesses the fraction of the Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke poverty gap attributable … to mean income over time being below the poverty line. Resulting estimates of 40-50% transient poverty point to the …

investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … small amount. The main reason for the rise in income inequality was that high-income percentiles had faster income growth … than lower percentiles; the fall in income inequality implies faster income growth among low-income percentiles. The paper …

, 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 …

The paper describes inequality trends in selected emerging economies (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, China, India … of living). To the extent made possible by the nature of available data, measures of income inequality for these emerging … economies covered in the paper show levels of income inequality higher than in the five most unequal OECD countries, while the …

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 …

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

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … United States in the 1990s. The following questions are taken up. To what extent are measures of annual income inequality …

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … United States in the 1990s. The following questions are taken up. To what extent are measures of annual income inequality …

Annual income data may provide a misleading indicator of enduring income inequality in societies where there is …’s Republic of China (PRC) between the early 1990s and early 2000s. In the early 1990s, the increase in income inequality in the … inequality increased further, income mobility decreased, implying that the probability of being stuck in a relatively lower level …