A New Approach to Decomposing Poverty Changes in China

摘要：

Variations in aggregate poverty indices can be due to three components. This paper uses a general cost-of-inequality approach that decomposes the total change in poverty into a sum of indices of each of the three components. This decomposition can also serve to integrate horizontal and vertical equity measures in the poverty alleviation assessment of social and economic programs. Then, we use these measures to briefly illustrate Chinese poverty changes in 2005.

关键词： Poverty Vertical Equity Horizontal Equity China

作者: XU Junwu

作者单位: School of Business, Hubei University, P.R.China, 430062

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 International Institute of Applied Statistics Studies(2009 国际应用统计学术研讨会)

会议地点: 青岛

会议语种:英文

页码: 1-4

在线出版日期: 2009-07-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）