Macroeconomic Shifts Widen Urban-Rural Wealth Gap, Threaten Equitable Growth
This study combined different economic models to see how changes in prices and incomes affect different types of households. They used a special method to blend these models together. The results showed that when prices changed, it generally helped poor rural families, but as the country's economy got more capital, urban families benefitted more. Comparing the new method with the old one, they found that the older predictions didn't consider how these changes might impact people's well-being.