New tools allow one to study the incidence of economic growth by initial leveof income, and to measure the rate of pro-poor growth in an economy. An application is provided using data for China in the 1990s.It is important to know how aggregate economic growth or contraction was distributed...

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project (CHIP) to show that during a period when many countries...

Over the past 30 years, there have been periods of boom and bust, but average household incomes have grown strongly in Ireland. The distribution of household income has been broadly stable over this period, so that there has been substantial growth for low-, middle- and high-income households....