In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made … over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen …, and social implications in today's China. Given the well-documented correlation between landlessness and rural poverty …

It is well known in theory that certain forms of non-linear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and … poverty will be an investment with lasting benefits, and pro-poor redistribution will promote aggregate economic growth. We … test for non-linearity in the dynamics of household expenditures and incomes using panel data for rural south-west China …

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …

This paper addresses issues related to the dynamics of income poverty using unique household panel data for urban and … rural areas of Ethiopia covering the period 1994-97. The percentage of households that remained in poverty was twice as … persistence is a key feature of urban poverty. The paper also discusses household characteristics that are correlated with the …

level using panel data from four provinces of post-reform rural China. The tests allow for nonstationary fixed effects in …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … who is a cadre. Given the increasing returns to non-agricultural employment since China's economic reforms began, it is …

The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) program was implemented in response to illness-led poverty and poor state of … healthcare in rural China. Supported by government subsidy, more and more poor rural households are now enrolled in the NCMS … and income groups. We utilize the China Health and Nutrition Survey data (CHNS) to provide prolific cross section and …

examine the impact of rural-urban migration on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In … poverty and that non-poor households fall into poverty. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that failure to control for unobserved … into poverty. …

China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and …

. Hence, sustainable livelihood approaches are used at both policy and project level to initiate new poverty reduction …