Lipton, Michael; Zhang, Qi - Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex - 2007
increasingly concentrated in ‘rural poverty islands’ (RPIs). By 2001, almost 40 per cent of China’s poor – but only about a fifth … the case of China, CL accompanied rapid, robust economic growth and reduction in poverty. However, from the mid-1980s …, inequality – among regions, between city and village, and within rural communities – soared, leaving stubborn poverty …