While there is more poverty in areas officially classified as poor areas than elsewhere, most of the Chinese rural poor do not live in such areas. Further, most persons living in classified poor areas are found to be not poor. Poverty status in rural China is found to vary remarkably little by age or by gender. In selected East Asian economies, the behavior of detrended macroeconomic variables was found to be similar to that observed in the postwar U.S. economy. Consumption and investment are highly procyclical while the balance of trade and the price level are counter-cyclical in most of them.
Labor productivity is procyclical in general.
The high coherence between U.S. GDP and that of the East Asian economies suggests that business cycles in terms of frequency are also similar between the United States and East Asia. Yoko Iwasaki , gThe Role of the Namayande in Iran fs Textile Industry, h pp. The subject of this study are middlemen known as namayande in the Iranian textile industry who plays a very important role in the operations of the innumerable small and medium-sized private firms. When private firms import materials from abroad, namayande make the connections between them and foreign sellers.