China's Growth and Poverty Reduction : Trends between 1990 and 1999

The authors investigate recent rends in poverty, and inequality in China, decomposing data on poverty reduction to see who has benefited most from China's economic growth. They find that, by several measures, poverty declined significantly in...

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Main Authors:	Chen, Shaohua, Wang, Yan
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE ANNUAL GROWTH ANNUAL GROWTH RATE ANNUAL INCOME ASIAN CRISES ASSET INEQUALITY AVERAGE ANNUAL AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE PERSON CAPITAL CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CAPITAL FLOWS CONSUMPTION DISTRIBUTION CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES COST OF LIVING DATA COLLECTION DEMAND SIDE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT NETWORK DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTION DATA DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA DOMESTIC DEMAND ECONOMIC CRISIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC POLICY ECONOMIC REFORM ECONOMIC REVIEW EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EXPLAINING CHANGES EXPLAINING INEQUALITY EXTERNAL FACTORS FACTOR INCOME FINANCIAL CRISES FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS GINI COEFFICIENT GINI INDEX GROWTH GROWTH COMPONENT GROWTH MODEL GROWTH MODELS GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH RATES HEAD-COUNT INDEX HEADCOUNT INDEX HIGH POVERTY HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME DISPARITIES INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME GROUPS INCOME GROWTH INCOME GROWTH RATE INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME SHARE INCOMES INEQUALITY CONSTANT INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE INTERNATIONAL TRADE LITERACY RATES LIVING STANDARD LONG RUN MACRO POLICY MARKET FAILURES MEAN CONSUMPTION MEAN INCOME MIDDLE INCOME NATIONAL INCOME NATIONAL LEVEL NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINES NATURAL CAPITAL NEGATIVE GROWTH NEGATIVE IMPACT NEGATIVE SIGN PAPERS PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY ENVIRONMENT POLICY REFORMS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR BENEFIT POOR PEOPLE POVERTY CHANGES POVERTY COMPONENT POVERTY GAP POVERTY GROWTH POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY INCREASE POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY TRAP POVERTY TRENDS PRO-GROWTH POLICIES PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH PUBLIC POLICY QUALITY OF GROWTH REAL INCOME REGIONAL DISPARITIES REGIONAL DISPARITY REGIONAL GROWTH REGIONAL INEQUALITY RELATIVE PRICES RISING INEQUALITY RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY SCHOOLING ATTAINMENT SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION SOCIAL STAGNATION STANDARD DEVIATION STANDARD OF LIVING SUSTAINABLE GROWTH TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION URBAN AREAS VULNERABLE PEOPLE WEALTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/07/1552067/chinas-growth-poverty-reduction-trends-between-1990-1999 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19586