-based poverty program in the world, namely China's Di Bao program, which aims to assure a minimum income through means …The central governments of many developing countries have chosen to decentralize their anti-poverty programs, in the …

-based poverty program in the world, namely China's Di Bao program, which aims to assure a minimum income through means …The central governments of many developing countries have chosen to decentralize their anti-poverty programs, in the …

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 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 …