Almås, Ingvild; Johnsen, Åshild A.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2014 - This version June, 2014
Estimates of poverty are highly sensitive to price and income measures across time and space. This paper offers a … complementary approach to traditional poverty measurement that ensures comparability: we use nighttime light as a proxy for poverty … living in these areas.Between 1992 and 2005, both measures reveal a steady decrease in poverty in China. From 2005 to 2010 …
