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Income inequality and rural poverty in China

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  • Haitao Wu
  • Shijun Ding
  • Guanghua Wan

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Purpose - – The purpose of this paper is to apply a poverty level decomposition approach to decompose the poverty by income sources and investigate the impact of government transfers on income inequality and rural poverty. Design/methodology/approach - – This paper uses the decomposition method of inequality and the decomposition method of poverty level by resource endowments to decompose the overall inequality and the overall poverty by income sources. Findings - – It is found that unequal income distribution rather than income endowments is mainly responsible for the existence of poverty. Government transfers and relief income, aiming at the poor, help alleviate inequality and poverty, but are not targeting the poorest. Unequal distribution of production subsidies actually lead to higher poverty incidence. Research limitations/implications - – This paper has revealed that the poverty issue cannot be resolved with economic development alone if the issues including the inequality in income distribution are not solved. It is important to make government transfers/subsidies pro-poor. Originality/value - – A poverty level decomposition approach is first used to decompose the poverty by income sources in China.

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  • Haitao Wu & Shijun Ding & Guanghua Wan, 2015. "Income inequality and rural poverty in China," China Agricultural Economic Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 7(1), pages 65-85, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:caerpp:v:7:y:2015:i:1:p:65-85
    DOI: 10.1108/CAER-01-2014-0005
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    1. Muhammad Abrar ul haq & Mohd Razani Mohd Jali & Gazi Md Nural Islam, 2018. "Assessment of the role of household empowerment in alleviating participatory poverty among rural household of Pakistan," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 52(6), pages 2795-2814, November.

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