This paper characterizes the nature of poverty from a dynamic life-cycle perspective. Using panel data from the … National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we find that 40% of young Americans experienced at least one year of poverty, and most … of these experienced one or two years. A significant group, by age 34, had suffered five or more years of poverty out of …

This Paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …

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

We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship … poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory …

this question in the context of rural public work program (Yigong-daizhen) in China, and unveils empirical evidence that …

Many fear China’s accession to WTO will impoverish its farmers, via greater import competition in its agricultural … accession are drawn on to examine empirically the real income implications of China’s WTO accession. The results suggest farm …/non-farm income inequality may well rise within China but rural-urban income inequality need not. The Paper concludes with some policy …

resources in the analysis of poverty. Most empirical studies of poverty, however, assume an equal sharing of resources between …, only limited attention has been directed towards addressing how sharing assumptions can be incorporated into poverty … female adults and between adults and children affects the incidence and intensity of poverty. The method is consistent with …

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. …

important since democracy is, on the whole, for specified reasons likely to enhance poverty reduction. …