TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Appleton, Simon
AU  - Song, Lina
AU  - Xia, Qingjie
        TI  - Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
        PY  - 2008/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3459
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3459
        AB  - This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant thereafter. Models of the determination of income and poverty reveal widening differentials by education, sex and 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.
        KW  - China
KW  - inequality
KW  - economic growth
KW  - welfare
KW  - poverty
KW  - public policy
        ER  -