? Evidence for China for the year 2004, by means of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), shows that health insurance … people into a position of long-term poverty or serious liquidity problems. …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth …. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This …

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 urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions …

-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than … its negative health impacts in impoverished rural China using individual fixed effect models. Both the linear regression …