China is Poorer than we Thought, But No Less Successful in the Fight Against Poverty

In 2005, China participated for the first time in the International Comparison Program (ICP), which collects primary data across countries on the prices for an internationally comparable list of goods and services. This paper examines the implicati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chen, Shaohua, Ravallion, Martin
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
PPP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/05/9452484/china-poorer-thought-no-less-successful-fight-against-poverty
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6674