China is Poorer than We Thought, but No Less Successful in the Fight against Poverty

Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chen, Shaohua ^a   Ravallion, Martin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

China; International comparison program; Poverty line; Purchasing power parity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920114184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558032.003.0015     Document Type: Chapter

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