Chronic and transient poverty in rural China

Guanghua Wan and Yuan Zhang

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 119, issue 3, 284-286

Abstract: This paper rectifies the poverty decomposition framework of Rodgers and Rodgers (1993) which violates the Focus Axiom of Sen (1976). An empirical application of the rectified technique reveals that poverty in rural China was dominated by the chronic component.

Keywords: Chronic poverty; Transient poverty; Poverty decomposition; Rural China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.02.036

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