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 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 among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated taking a dynamic view and using a large sample covering 22 provinces. Based on the National Bureau of Statistics' low income line, almost one-third of the ethnic minorities...