How Well Do National Accounts and Surveys Agree? a New Look from the Provinces of China
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The dispute over the extent of global poverty hinges mostly on the disparity between household surveys and the national accounts estimates. In this paper we use data from the provinces of China to document the extent of this disparity in a major contributor to global poverty. JEL Classification number: O1, C80.
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