Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income … survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002, we investigate factors affecting receipt and how receipt affects urban … poverty. Results from estimating probability models indicate that social assistance receipt is strongly linked to joblessness …

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 …

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI …) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of … households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in …

We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large … increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first … absolute poverty and also substantially under-estimated the rise in relative poverty. Their and our findings on poverty reflect …

higher levels of poverty …

children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …

Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates … poverty differences can be attributed to differences in location together with temporary and persistent poverty in rural China …

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …