-2004 using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data. It shows that income grew for all segments of the population, and as a … result, poverty incidence has fallen. However, income growth has been uneven, most rapidly in coastal areas, and among the …

While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980-2001, progress was uneven over time and … pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic … the rural sector greatly slowed poverty reduction. Provinces starting with relatively high inequality saw slower progress …

China’s population is set to age fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. With ongoing migration of the …

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

-2004 using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data. It shows that income grew for all segments of the population, and as a … result, poverty incidence has fallen. However, income growth has been uneven, most rapidly in coastal areas, and among the …

understanding of the agriculture-poverty-environment nexus – defined as the set of complex linkages between agriculture, poverty and … the environment – and of the economic incentives that drive the natural resource use of smallholder farmers in vulnerable …

, absolute poverty in China continued to decline and by 2013 absolute poverty was relatively low, but poverty among the remaining … which share in common their use of household data from the latest round of the China Household Income Project (CHIP) survey … to analyze recent trends in inequality in China. We begin with an overview of relevant economic and policy developments …

In this chapter we examine trends in China's household incomes, income distribution and inequality for China as a whole …

This chapter seeks to throw new light on the emergence of the Chinese economic middle class using data from the China … Household Income Project from 2002, 2007, and 2013. We find that between 2002 and 2013 China's income distribution was … rich if living in a high-income country, we find that the share of China's population that was middle class was extremely …

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …