This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

associated with three development outcomes: corruption, inequalityand poverty. Of the media variables, newspapers are observed to … negative association with inequality and poverty. ICTs andtelephony infrastructures.association with corruption, inequality and … poverty aremixed. There is some robust evidence of the negative association of ICT expenditureswith corruption. An ICT index …

's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … opportunities under the scheme have cut poverty during the agricultural lean season by as much as one half while we find no effect …

those in rural areas. All the factors presented increase the risk of poverty for the categories at the limit of this …

This report summarises presentations and discussion at a workshop on ‘Persistent Poverty and Lifetime Inequality … static analysis of poverty and inequality to a dynamic focus. Looking at the dynamics of poverty andinequality of opportunity …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequalityand poverty indices make it … of poverty would have increased under the firstNew Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of income … support andtax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantiallyreduce poverty among families …