Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35133 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3459
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 thereafter. Models of the determination of income and poverty reveal widening differentials by education, sex and party membership. Income from government anti-poverty programs has little impact on poverty, which has fallen almost entirely due to overall economic growth rather than redistribution.
Subjects: 
Poverty
inequality
economic growth
welfare
public policy
China
JEL: 
O15
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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