(1962-1994), this paper seeks to identify the pathways of exiting rural poverty and also the determinants of middle class … stability. We also test the changes in the returns on assets in exiting poverty after the 1980s. We find that better access to … and non-agricultural sectors. Macroeconomic growth was, however, the key determinant of poverty-exit probabilities until …

having a very low cost structure – making it lucrative for banks to target the rural poor. Poverty is an insidious problem in … states, the issue is even more pressing. High levels of poverty lead to high rates of migration towards the North. Augmented …

examines the comparative evidence on longitudinal income and persistent poverty for the three countries. Elaborating on the … estimates of the population in persitent and transitory poverty in a comparative perspective. What the model actually pursues is … working time reductions. According to this framework, poverty can be seen as a state in which permanent income falls below a …

Relative deprivation (RD), also known as relative poverty , an idea implicitly put forward by Adam Smith in The Wealth …”, indicating that taking a relatively good position benefits people in the Chinese society. RD is also a pressing issue for China … reviews key measures of RD and empirical findings for China. I also discuss some of the most pressing policy issues with …

poverty has been a central issue in development debates for decades. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the … debate by empirically examining the poverty-alleviation effects of one of the largest targeted programs in the world: the … Minimum Living Standard Assistance (MLSA) or Dibao in China. Using newly available data on MLSA spending and a unique panel …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

This study aims to examine the determinants of poverty dynamics in Indonesia. This study applies the spell approach of … poverty experience and the ordered logit model to identify the poverty status of households: poor, transient poor … vulnerable to being transient poor (-). Our estimations confirmed that the important factors of poverty dynamics in Indonesia are …

This paper aims to measure the poverty dynamics in Vietnam using the most recent Vietnam Household Living Standard … to poverty, is small, at around 3.7 percent. …

used transition matrices to identify people who entered and left the poverty line in Peru between 2001-2003.Probabilistic … regressions models were used to explain the main determinants of poverty dynamics. Changes in house members, decrease of active … the dynamics poverty in Peru in those years. Otherwise,just only 28% of the households were never poor,15% were poor for …