| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w28147
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 28147
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| Reconciling the Conflicting Narratives on Poverty in China |
| Shaohua Chen; Martin Ravallion
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| 发表日期 | 2020-11-30
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| 出版年 | 2020
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The widely held view that China has greatly reduced income poverty over the last 40 years does not accord with all the evidence. The paper tries to reconcile the conflicting findings. The fact that strongly-relative measures show rising poverty is easily understood, since such measures depend solely on relative distribution, and inequality in China has been rising until recently. More surprising, and revealing, is the story told by the official lines, which were revised twice since the original 1985 line. The paper shows that the official lines are neither absolute nor strongly relative. Rather, they are weakly relative, with a positive elasticity to the mean that is less than unity. Along with rising inequality, this feature slowed the pace of measured poverty reduction when compared to absolute measures. Nonetheless, substantial progress against poverty is indicated, as we confirm using our independent, and higher, weakly-relative lines calibrated to cross-country data. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Poverty and Wellbeing
; Development and Growth
; Development
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28147
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/585821
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Shaohua Chen,Martin Ravallion. Reconciling the Conflicting Narratives on Poverty in China. 2020.
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