PRO-POOR EFFECT DECOMPOSITION OF COUNTRY-LEVEL CITY IN CHINA(1996—2008) AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCE ANALYSIS
研究分解了经济增长、收入分配和贫困线变动对中国地级市贫困的影响，发现西部发展模式亲贫，而其他地区为涓滴效应，且经济增长始终减贫。
The paper further develops the methodology of decomposition of economic growth,income distribution and poverty line translation affect on poverty and utilizes poverty growth curve.These methodologies are applied to analyze the poverty reduction of country-level cities in northeast,eastern,central and western of China from 1996 to 2008.The empirical result implies that the model of economic development in western is pro-poor,while the other three regions have a model of trickle-down.In most cases,the poverty levels of northeast and eastern are lighter than those of central and western.In northeast,the rate of poverty and the income gap of poor are rising,and the average distance between income of poor and poverty line is reducing.The decomposition result shows that economic growth has played a role in poverty reduction all the time.The expanded gap of income causes the pro-poor result,while the reduced one makes the poverty level worse.It is benefit for using translating poverty line to analysis the role of poverty reduction of economic development and income distribution independently.