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This paper provides unique evidence of the positive consequences of seasonal migration for investments in early childhood development. We analyse migration in a poor shockprone border region in rural Nicaragua where it offers one of the main household income diversification and risk coping...

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Urbanization, inequality, and poverty in the People's Republic of China

Zhang, Yuan - 2016

Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and provides further empirical evidence on the role of...

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Estimating income inequality in China using grouped data and the generalized beta distribution

Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Rao, D. S. Prasada; Tang, Kam Ki - 2007

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Changes in the distribution of wealth in China, 1995 - 2002

Li, Shi; Zhao, Renwei - 2007

, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth distribution among Chinese households. Our analysis indicates that the wealth … apartments were sold to urban households at extremely low prices, has accelerated the accumulation of wealth among urban … households on the one hand, and widened the wealth gap between urban and rural areas on the other. …

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