Geographic poverty traps? A micro model of consumption growth in rural China

By J. Jalan, M. Ravallion. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Are there lasting impacts of aid to poor areas (2009, background): “…with growth divergence.12 However, it is unclear whether this also holds across villages within the same (poor) counties; indeed, the results of Jalan and Ravallion (2002) (also for southwest China) suggest that inter-county divergence can occur side-by-side with intra-county convergence.”
Rural Poverty (2009, background): “Jalan and Ravallion (2002) presented evidence for China that roads are relevant for growth.”
Fate and Fear: Risk and its Consequences in Africa (2008, methodology): “Regression (2) uses the Jalan-Ravallion estimator (Jalan and Ravallion (2002)).”
Household Income Dynamics in Rural China (2001, positive): “…evidence of a poverty trap arising from nonlinear dynamics, in other work we have found strong signs of geographic poverty traps in these data, whereby location matters crucially to prospects of escaping poverty at given (latent and observed) household characteristics (Jalan and Ravallion, 2002).”
The world's most deprived: Characteristics and causes of extreme poverty and hunger (2007, neutral): “57 Jalan and Ravallion 2002.”
The benefits of rural roads: enhancing income opportunities for the rural poor (2002, background): “This difference in welfare impact between households articulated to product and factor markets through motorized roads and households articulated through non-motorized roads is consistent with what was posed by Jalan and Ravallion (2002).”
Spatio-temporal patterns of rural poverty in China and targeted poverty alleviation strategies (2017, background): “China's persistent poverty can be ascribed to inadequate natural endowments (Jalan and Ravallion, 2002), ecological environmental degradation (Yang et al.”
In Search of the Holy Grail: How to Achieve Pro-Poor Growth? (2003, background): “investment, or through sheer remoteness from markets (e.g. Jalan and Ravallion, 2000; Ray,”
Welfare Impacts of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization (2004, background): “For China’s lagging poor areas see Jalan and Ravallion (2002).”