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 …

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. We find that spatial …

par with usual seasonal effects. The overall nutritional impact of the world price increase was small because households …