rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

power to that when totally unemployed, we establish the appropriate cut-off point for the poverty trap and upper rate …

in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such … consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of poverty. We offer an explanation for this observation, based on a … can help explain the persistence of poverty. …

extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …

estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. …