determining poverty levels and poverty changes in rural China. …The purpose of this paper is to develop two poverty decomposition frameworks and to illustrate their applicability. A … given level of poverty is broadly decomposed into an overall inequality component and an overall endowment component in …

This paper measures rural poverty in Hubei Province and Inner Mongolia in China. The poverty lines we derived by … future anti-poverty programs should pay more attention to solving the inequality problem in China. Poverty dominance analysis … Ravallion's method differ from the official Chinese poverty lines. The official pan-country poverty line underestimates rural …

This paper measures rural poverty in Hubei Province and Inner Mongolia in China. The poverty lines we derived by … future anti-poverty programs should pay more attention to solving the inequality problem in China. Poverty dominance analysis … Ravallion's method differ from the official Chinese poverty lines. The official pan-country poverty line underestimates rural …

The present article reviews poverty studies in Spanish Autonomous Communities using a new methodological approach. One … of the main concerns in those studies is poverty concentration in specific Spanish Autonomous Communities. This can be … the result of a bias due to use a unique national poverty line, since the circumstances of every family unit, specifically …

I discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between … in the empirical literature estimates the relationship between individual poverty functions of additive measures … their poverty function, this approach is simply a specific case of the onestage recentered influence function decomposition …

Together with the economic transition, in China the return to education and the skill premium increased; this … educational poverty over the period 1975-2004 by using traditional inequality indicators, but adapting them to some features of … carried out by using the China Health and Nutrition Survey provided by the Carolina Population Center for the period 1989 …

This paper analyzes the impact of trade reform on welfare and poverty in the Philippines in the 1990s using a CGE model …. The results indicate that while welfare rises and poverty falls for all household groups except the poorest (those with … reduction in poverty in the latter. Since poverty remains high and the disparity between rural and urban poverty is still wide …

the levels of income poverty of grower and non-grower household groups, following exogenous shocks, such as contract … results indicate that productivity gains have a broad-based income growth and poverty reduction potential, even greater than … control of domestic agents. While current poverty impacts of cotton cropping are relatively small, there is high potential for …

liberalization on household welfare and poverty in Nepal through the construction of a regional CGE model. The model disaggregates … incomes such that there are negligible welfare changes. However, poverty falls substantially, with the greatest impact in …