Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim; Giles, John - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006
The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … apply these tools to the measurement of chronic and transient poverty in China using a rich panel data set that extends over … approximately 17 years. We find that alternative measurement techniques yield significantly different estimates of the relative …