In this paper, we have used some mobility indexes to measure the rural income movements that happened in the time from 1988 to 2005, and decomposed it with the Fields&OK methods. From the analysis results, we found that income movements could reduce the short-term inequality in rural China, but...

Turkey's poverty reduction performance in the 2000s has been remarkably consistent. Extreme and moderate poverty have fallen considerably since 2003. Between 2002 and 2011, extreme poverty fell from 13 percent to 5 percent, while moderate poverty halved from 44 percent to 22 percent...