Consumption Based Estimates of Urban Chinese Growth /

This paper estimates the household income growth rates implied by food demand in a sample of urban Chinese households in 1993-2005. Our estimates, based on Engel curves for food consumption, indicate an average per capita income growth of 6.8 percent per year in 1993-2005. This figure is slightly la...

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Autor Principal: Chamon, Marcos
Outros autores: de Carvalho Filho, Irineu
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/265
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF