Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …

Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China …

This paper tries to make a comparative study of poverty reduction in India and China during 1990s. This study could … observed that in both India and China the absolute poverty levels have fallen ever since the liberalization process has started …

To examine poverty on China's campuses, we utilize the Chinese College Students Survey carried out in 2010. With … find that 22 percent of college students in China are living in poverty. Poverty is more severe among students from the …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …

This paper estimates the causal impact of China's targeted poverty alleviation program on the academic achievement of … nationally designated poor county in China. Using the difference-in-differences approach, we show that targeted poverty … empirical evidence for boys. Our findings suggest that the new anti-poverty program in China has the potential to ameliorate the …

Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed … residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty …

national-level poverty-stricken counties between the late 1990s and 2010s in China. For these counties, the initial conditions … policies, we exploit two exogenous sources of variation in the context of poverty reduction in China. First, the government …