The Pattern of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China
China has seen a huge reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty since the economic reforms that started in the late 1970s. Yet, the growth process has been highly uneven across sectors and regions. The paper tests whether the pattern of China´s...
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okr-10986-42602021-04-23T14:02:16Z The Pattern of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China Montalvo, Jose G. Ravallion, Martin ABSOLUTE POVERTY AGGREGATE INCOME AGGREGATE OUTPUT AGGREGATE POVERTY AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE CHANGES IN POVERTY CITIES COEFFICIENTS CONSUMER PRICE INDEX COUNTERFACTUAL COVARIANCE MATRIX DETERMINANT OF POVERTY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LETTERS ERROR TERM ESTIMATES OF POVERTY ESTIMATION METHOD EXCHANGE RATE EXPLANATORY VARIABLES EXTREME POVERTY FIXED EFFECTS FIXED EFFECTS ESTIMATION FIXED EFFECTS ESTIMATOR GROWTH ELASTICITY GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HIGH INEQUALITY IMPACT ON POVERTY INCOME INDUSTRIAL SECTOR INEQUALITY INEQUALITY WILL INFLATION RATE LAND INEQUALITY LAND RIGHTS LANDHOLDINGS LEVEL OF POVERTY LOW INEQUALITY MEAN INCOME MUNICIPALITIES MUNICIPALITY NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE 0 HYPOTHESIS OUTPUT GROWTH POLICY CHOICES POLICY DEBATE POLICY REFORM POLICY REFORMS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR PEOPLE POPULATION SHARE POST-REFORM POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION PRO-POOR PROVINCE PROVINCIAL DATA PROVINCIAL LEVEL PUBLIC INVESTMENT REDISTRIBUTION REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REDUCTION OF POVERTY RURAL RURAL AREA RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL ECONOMIC GROWTH RURAL ECONOMY RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE RURAL POPULATION RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY REDUCTION RURAL PROVINCES SECTORAL COMPOSITION SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION SPATIAL DIMENSIONS SPATIAL INEQUALITY STANDARD DEVIATION SUB-NATIONAL SUBNATIONAL UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION URBAN AREAS URBAN POVERTY China has seen a huge reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty since the economic reforms that started in the late 1970s. Yet, the growth process has been highly uneven across sectors and regions. The paper tests whether the pattern of China´s growth mattered to poverty reduction using a new provincial panel data set constructed for this purpose. The econometric tests support the view that the primary sector (mainly agriculture) has been the main driving force in poverty reduction over the period since 1980. It was the sectoral unevenness in the growth process, rather than its geographic unevenness, that handicapped poverty reduction. Yes, China has had great success in reducing poverty through economic growth, but this happened despite the unevenness in its sectoral pattern of growth. The idea of a trade-off between these sectors in terms of overall progress against poverty in China turns out to be a moot point, given how little evidence there is of any poverty impact of non-primary sector growth, controlling for primary-sector growth. While the non-primary sectors were key drivers of aggregate growth, it was the primary sector that did the heavy lifting against poverty. 2012-03-19T19:12:48Z 2012-03-19T19:12:48Z 2009-10-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20091006163931 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4260 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5069 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific East Asia and Pacific East Asia Asia China |
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ABSOLUTE POVERTY AGGREGATE INCOME AGGREGATE OUTPUT AGGREGATE POVERTY AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE CHANGES IN POVERTY CITIES COEFFICIENTS CONSUMER PRICE INDEX COUNTERFACTUAL COVARIANCE MATRIX DETERMINANT OF POVERTY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LETTERS ERROR TERM ESTIMATES OF POVERTY ESTIMATION METHOD EXCHANGE RATE EXPLANATORY VARIABLES EXTREME POVERTY FIXED EFFECTS FIXED EFFECTS ESTIMATION FIXED EFFECTS ESTIMATOR GROWTH ELASTICITY GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HIGH INEQUALITY IMPACT ON POVERTY INCOME INDUSTRIAL SECTOR INEQUALITY INEQUALITY WILL INFLATION RATE LAND INEQUALITY LAND RIGHTS LANDHOLDINGS LEVEL OF POVERTY LOW INEQUALITY MEAN INCOME MUNICIPALITIES MUNICIPALITY NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE 0 HYPOTHESIS OUTPUT GROWTH POLICY CHOICES POLICY DEBATE POLICY REFORM POLICY REFORMS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR PEOPLE POPULATION SHARE POST-REFORM POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION PRO-POOR PROVINCE PROVINCIAL DATA PROVINCIAL LEVEL PUBLIC INVESTMENT REDISTRIBUTION REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REDUCTION OF POVERTY RURAL RURAL AREA RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL ECONOMIC GROWTH RURAL ECONOMY RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE RURAL POPULATION RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY REDUCTION RURAL PROVINCES SECTORAL COMPOSITION SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION SPATIAL DIMENSIONS SPATIAL INEQUALITY STANDARD DEVIATION SUB-NATIONAL SUBNATIONAL UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION URBAN AREAS URBAN POVERTY |
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ABSOLUTE POVERTY AGGREGATE INCOME AGGREGATE OUTPUT AGGREGATE POVERTY AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE CHANGES IN POVERTY CITIES COEFFICIENTS CONSUMER PRICE INDEX COUNTERFACTUAL COVARIANCE MATRIX DETERMINANT OF POVERTY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY DEVELOPMENT REPORT DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LETTERS ERROR TERM ESTIMATES OF POVERTY ESTIMATION METHOD EXCHANGE RATE EXPLANATORY VARIABLES EXTREME POVERTY FIXED EFFECTS FIXED EFFECTS ESTIMATION FIXED EFFECTS ESTIMATOR GROWTH ELASTICITY GROWTH PERFORMANCE GROWTH PRO-POOR GROWTH PROCESS GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HIGH INEQUALITY IMPACT ON POVERTY INCOME INDUSTRIAL SECTOR INEQUALITY INEQUALITY WILL INFLATION RATE LAND INEQUALITY LAND RIGHTS LANDHOLDINGS LEVEL OF POVERTY LOW INEQUALITY MEAN INCOME MUNICIPALITIES MUNICIPALITY NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE 0 HYPOTHESIS OUTPUT GROWTH POLICY CHOICES POLICY DEBATE POLICY REFORM POLICY REFORMS POLICY RESEARCH POOR POOR PEOPLE POPULATION SHARE POST-REFORM POVERTY ALLEVIATION POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE POVERTY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION PRO-POOR PROVINCE PROVINCIAL DATA PROVINCIAL LEVEL PUBLIC INVESTMENT REDISTRIBUTION REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY REDUCTION OF POVERTY RURAL RURAL AREA RURAL AREAS RURAL DEVELOPMENT RURAL ECONOMIC GROWTH RURAL ECONOMY RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE RURAL POPULATION RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY REDUCTION RURAL PROVINCES SECTORAL COMPOSITION SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION SPATIAL DIMENSIONS SPATIAL INEQUALITY STANDARD DEVIATION SUB-NATIONAL SUBNATIONAL UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION URBAN AREAS URBAN POVERTY Montalvo, Jose G. Ravallion, Martin The Pattern of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China |
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China has seen a huge reduction in the
incidence of extreme poverty since the economic reforms that
started in the late 1970s. Yet, the growth process has been
highly uneven across sectors and regions. The paper tests
whether the pattern of China´s growth mattered to poverty
reduction using a new provincial panel data set constructed
for this purpose. The econometric tests support the view
that the primary sector (mainly agriculture) has been the
main driving force in poverty reduction over the period
since 1980. It was the sectoral unevenness in the growth
process, rather than its geographic unevenness, that
handicapped poverty reduction. Yes, China has had great
success in reducing poverty through economic growth, but
this happened despite the unevenness in its sectoral pattern
of growth. The idea of a trade-off between these sectors in
terms of overall progress against poverty in China turns out
to be a moot point, given how little evidence there is of
any poverty impact of non-primary sector growth, controlling
for primary-sector growth. While the non-primary sectors
were key drivers of aggregate growth, it was the primary
sector that did the heavy lifting against poverty. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
| author |
Montalvo, Jose G. Ravallion, Martin |
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Montalvo, Jose G. Ravallion, Martin |
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Montalvo, Jose G. |
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The Pattern of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China |
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The Pattern of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China |
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The Pattern of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China |
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The Pattern of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China |
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The Pattern of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China |
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pattern of growth and poverty reduction in china |
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2012 |
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