Are poverty rates underestimated in China? New evidence from four recent surveys

China Economic Review

Volumn 31, Issue , 2014, Pages 410-425

  Zhang, Chunni ^a   Xu, Qi ^b   Zhou, Xiang ^c   Zhang, Xiaobo ^a,d   Xie, Yu ^a,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

China Family Panel Studies; China Household Finance Survey; Chinese General Social Survey; Chinese Household Income Project; Poverty prevalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918516885     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2014.05.017     Document Type: Article

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