characterizes the poverty minimizing minimum wage, and shows how it depends on productivity, inequality and the degree of labor …The effects of a minimum wage on employment and on poverty have been studied in the literature. This paper …

China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social … compact and thus the political basis for economic growth and social development. The regional dimension of inequality— rural … of us have been researching Chinese regional inequality for over a decade. In a series of papers which have been …

(MDGs) or any subsequent set of goals aiming to reduce poverty worldwide. Related research has developed a multitude of … importance of agriculture for poverty reduction in developing countries. The toolbox is then applied to two comparable household … the income, but also in the education and health dimension of poverty, which was in many cases even pro-poor in the …