investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … also indicates a considerable poverty reduction during China's economic transition, mainly because of the growth effect of … poverty decomposition. …

, 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 …

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 …

poverty, and provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several … conclusions can be drawn from this paper. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents … and poverty of migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural–urban income …

educational poverty over the period 1975-2004 by using traditional inequality indicators, but adapting them to some features of … follow the evolution of educational inequality and poverty over 15 years. Moreover, we also use other data sources … also within each province and area. However, the Theil index decomposition shows that the decrease of educational poverty …

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 …

In this paper, we construct an illustrative multidimensional poverty index for China and compare it with income poverty … method and regression analysis to test the stability of multidimensional poverty measures and probe the often-observed mis …-match between multidimensional measures and income measures. We find as expected that China’s multidimensional poverty is …

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 …

The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases … introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we …