This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty …

Estimates of poverty are highly sensitive to price and income measures across time and space. This paper offers a … complementary approach to traditional poverty measurement that ensures comparability: we use nighttime light as a proxy for poverty … living in these areas.Between 1992 and 2005, both measures reveal a steady decrease in poverty in China. From 2005 to 2010 …