Zhang, Yin; Wan, Guanghua - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006
of poverty in China in the 1990s. The changes in poverty trends are attributed to two proximate causes; income growth and … datasets and alternative assumptions about poverty lines and equivalence. Among the robust results are: (i) both income growth … inequality and stagnant income growth, leading to a slow-down in poverty reduction, even reversal of poverty trend. …