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How Should We Measure Poverty in a Changing World? Methodological Issues and Chinese Case Study

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Lars Osberg
Kuan Xu () (Department of Economics, Dalhousie University)

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Keywords: development; poverty; measurement; China; growth;

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  1. Myles, John & Picot, Garnett, 2000. "Poverty Indices and Policy Analysis," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 46(2), pages 161-79, June.
  2. Lars Osberg & Kuan Xu, 1999. "Poverty Intensity: How Well Do Canadian Provinces Compare?," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 25(2), pages 179-195, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. François Bourguignon & Satya Chakravarty, 2003. "The Measurement of Multidimensional Poverty," Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer, vol. 1(1), pages 25-49, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Kuan Xu & Lars Osberg, 2002. "On Sen's Approach to Poverty Measures and Recent Developments," Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive sensw, Dalhousie, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  5. Jenkins, Stephen P & Lambert, Peter J, 1997. "Three 'I's of Poverty Curves, with an Analysis of UK Poverty Trends," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 49(3), pages 317-27, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  6. Shorrocks, Anthony F, 1995. "Revisiting the Sen Poverty Index," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 63(5), pages 1225-30, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Thon, Dominique, 1979. "On Measuring Poverty," Review of Income and Wealth, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 25(4), pages 429-39, December.
  8. Schady, Norbert R., 2000. "Picking the poor : indicators for geographic targeting in Peru," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2477, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
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  9. Lipton, Michael & Ravallion, Martin, 1995. "Poverty and policy," Handbook of Development Economics, in: Hollis Chenery† & T.N. Srinivasan (ed.), Handbook of Development Economics, edition 1, volume 3, chapter 41, pages 2551-2657 Elsevier. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  10. Michael Förster & Marco Mira d'Ercole, 2005. "Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries in the Second Half of the 1990s," OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers 22, OECD, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. [Downloadable!]
  11. Lars Osberg, 2000. "Poverty in Canada and the United States: measurement, trends, and implications," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 33(4), pages 847-877, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  12. Sen, Amartya K, 1976. "Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 44(2), pages 219-31, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  13. Hill, Robert J, 2000. " Constructing Bounds on Per Capita Income Differentials across Countries," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 102(2), pages 285-302, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Lars Osberg & Jiaping Shao & Kuan Xu, 2009. "The growth of poor children in China 1991-2000: why food subsidies may matter," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 18(S1), pages S89-S108. [Downloadable!]
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