Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988-2002

Simon Appleton, Lina Song () and Qingjie Xia

World Development, 2010, vol. 38, issue 5, 665-678

Abstract: Summary This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China using the Chinese Household Income Project surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing lower poverty in 2002 than in 1988 irrespective of the poverty line chosen. Incomes of the poorest fell during 1988-95, contributing to a rise in inequality. However, inequality has been fairly constant thereafter. Models of the determination of income and poverty reveal widening differentials by education, sex, and Communist 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.

Keywords: poverty; inequality; economic; growth; welfare; Asia; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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