practices and a welfarist definition of the poor. This paper fills this gap by constructing a poverty measurement theory that (i …Multidimensional poverty measures are increasingly used in practice even though they face strong criticism and generate … longlasting debates. These contentions primarily find their origin in the divergence between standard poverty identification …

practices and a welfarist definition of the poor. This paper fills this gap by constructing a poverty measurement theory that (i …Multidimensional poverty measures are increasingly used in practice even though they face strong criticism and generate … longlasting debates. These contentions primarily find their origin in the divergence between standard poverty identification …

This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China …. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export …-led growth model. Between Chinese households, we find that the most important factors explaining income inequality are location …