Measures of Relative and Absolute Convergence and Pro-poor Growth with an Illustration based on China(2010–2018)  

作　　者：Elena Bárcena-Martin Jacques Silber Yuan Zhang 

机构地区：[1]Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales,Universidad de Málaga,Spain [2]Department of Economics,Bar-Ilan University,Israel [3]China Center for Economic Studies,Fudan University,China

出　　处：《China & World Economy》2024年第2期1-41,共41页中国与世界经济（英文版）

基　　金：A previous version of this paper was presented by Jacques Silber at the Western Economic Association International(WEAI)15th International Conference,which took place on March 21–24,2019,at Keio University,Tokyo,Japan.Jacques Silber is grateful to the participants in his session,in particular to Peter Phelps,for their very useful comments.He is also grateful for the comments he received at seminars that he gave at the Asian Growth Research Institute in Kitakyushu and at Kyoto University,and at the Encuentro de Economia Publica(Barcelona,January 23–24,2020);Elena Bárcena-Martín acknowledges financial aid from Grant PID2020-115429GB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033;Yuan Zhang acknowledges financial aid from the Natural Science Foundation of China(No.72173026).

摘　　要：Income mobility is a key issue for understanding the process of economic growth and distributional change.Some economists have used the concept of“pro-poor growth”to examine,with individual-level panel data,whether the poor benefit more than the rich from economic growth by tracking the extent of income mobility among different population subgroups.There is also literature in macroeconomics on the measurement of convergence.This paper introduces population-weighted relative and absolute indices of mobility,convergence,and pro-poor growth;it also distinguishes between anonymous and nonanonymous approaches to these issues.The empirical analysis is based on Chinese panel data for the period 2010–2018.In both absolute and relative terms,income growth in China was greater for individuals with an initially lower income but only for lower income deciles in relative terms.There was also an overall increase in individual welfare from anonymous and nonanonymous perspectives,which was higher among younger individuals.The welfare of the poor did not increase more than that of the nonpoor.These results shed light on the evolution of income distribution in China during the past decade's rapid economic growth.

关 键 词：anonymous and nonanonymous approach CONVERGENCE exchange and structural mobility pro-poor growth 

分 类 号：F124[经济管理—世界经济]