Explaining the Poverty Difference between Inland and Coastal China: A Regression-based Decomposition Approach

Guanghua Wan and Yin Zhang ()

No RP2007-07, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper proposes a decomposition framework for quantifying contributions of the determinants of poverty to spatial differences or temporal changes in poverty. This framework is then applied to address the issue why poverty incidence is higher in inland than in coastal China. The empirical application requires household or individual income observations which, generally speaking, are not available. Thus, a data-generation method developed by Shorrocks and Wan is introduced to construct such observations from grouped income data.

Keywords: Income; Poverty; Poverty measurement; Regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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