The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the structure of rural poverty in China. Based on data from the China Household Income Project (CHIP) in 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013, we analyze: 1.) Anti-poverty trends and problems during the recent three decades. 2.) The structure of poverty...

Poverty assessments are generally based on data, a poverty line and a method of aggregating income of the poor households. In this paper the authors use the household income survey conducted for 1988 in China. They show that poverty status in the country has a clear spatial dimension. Poverty is...

The study focuses on two components of total poverty: chronic and transient poverty, and investigates their relative importance in total observed poverty, as well as the determinants of each component. We found that transient poverty accounts for a large proportion of total poverty observed in...