, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and …Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions …

activities alternative to farming (i.e. migration and non farm activities). In this paper, we use a multivariate analysis to … agricultural sector; while out-rural seasonal migration is emerging as a coping strategy adopted by poor households to meet their …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 …

its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China's structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its … economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978 …

rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an exogenous transfer to total income to decompose the Gini index. Second … household income. The results show that nonfarm activity reduces rural income inequality by raising the income of poor …

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been … inequality across provinces show that, if migration is taken into account, disparities are markedly less, and have tended to … in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries …. While high-skilled migration is worrisome, many international migrants accept low-skilled positions in host countries. Their … time-inconsistencies between short-run economic gains from migration and negative long-term effects from missing human …

large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …