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Consumption based estimates of urban Chinese growth / Chamon, Marcos; Filho. Irineu de Carvalho   Journal Article
Chamon, Marcos Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract 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% per year in 1993-2005. This figure is slightly larger than the 5.9% per year obtained by deflating nominal incomes by the CPI. We attribute this discrepancy to a small bias in the CPI, which is of a similar magnitude to the one often associated with the CPI in the United States. This result supports the view that Chinese price statistics are reliable. Our estimates indicate stronger gains among poorer households, suggesting that urban inflation up to 2005 in China was "pro-poor," in the sense that the increase in the cost of living for poorer households was smaller than for the average one.
Key Words China  Chinese Economy  Consumption  Urban China  Food Demand  PCI 
CPI  Urban Chinese Growth  Nominal Income 
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