01878cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF014101 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484329672 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Chamon, Marcos. Consumption Based Estimates of Urban Chinese Growth / Marcos Chamon, Irineu de Carvalho Filho. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013. 1 online resource (24 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students 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 larger than the 5.9 percent 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. 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. Mode of access: Internet de Carvalho Filho, Irineu. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/265 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2013/265/001.2013.issue-265-en.xml IMF e-Library