Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization: Azizur. Inequality and Public Policy in China. This book provides new analysis of inequality in China, with an emphasis on public policy considerations.
Several chapters focus on inequality of income; others analyze poverty and inequality in wealth and wages. Topics covered include migrants, women, the elderly, the relationship between income and health funding, and the impact of the rural tax reform. A distinguishing feature of this book is its database. All contributors to the volume make use of a large, nationwide survey of Chinese households, which permits consistent survey analysis spanning nearly fifteen years of China's transition era.
“Although rapid widening income inequality in China is widely recognized as one of the country's foremost policy challenges, analysis of income distribution trends has been severely hampered by data weaknesses. “Great books have three basic ingredients. “China in the reform era has experienced not only extraordinary economic growth, but also dramatic increases in inequality. Inequality: Trends and Intra-Local Issues - READING. Household Income and its Distribution in China.
China's Household Income and Its Distribution. China's Household Income and Its Distribution, 1995 and 2002 a Abstract A new, independently designed household income survey for China in 2002 shows some decline in income inequality in both rural and urban China since 1995.
However, the overall Gini ratio for China remained unchanged due to a rise in the urban–rural income gap. The reduction in rural inequality stemmed mainly from a fall in both inter-provincial inequality and inequality within most of the provinces, as well as from a further improvement in the distribution of wage income and farm income and a reduction in the regressiveness of net taxes. The reduction in urban inequality came from a fall in inter-provincial inequality and better distribution of imputed rental income and net taxes. The Cause and Cure of China's Widening Income Disparity by Gene Chang.
University of Toledo China Economic Review, Vol. 13, 2002 Abstract: China's income disparity has been widening during the reform period, as the Gini coefficient of China rose from a low level of 0.33 in 1980 to 0.46 in 2000.
Will this trend of widening income gap continue? This article makes the following arguments: First, China's income disparity is alarmingly high but the main reason for this disparity is the rural-urban income gap. Keywords: Income disparity, China, Gini coefficient JEL Classification: D3, O1, O5 Accepted Paper Series Suggested Citation Chang, Gene Hsin, The Cause and Cure of China's Widening Income Disparity. The Evolution of Income Inequality in Rural China by Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, John Giles. Dwayne Benjamin University of Toronto Loren Brandt University of Toronto - Department of Economics; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) John Giles World Bank; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 769-824, July 2005 William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 654 Abstract: We document the evolution of the income distribution in rural China, from 1987 through 1999, with an emphasis on investigating increases in inequality associated with transition and economic development.
Keywords: Rural inequality, China, welfare and transition, poverty, farm incomes JEL Classification: P36, D3, O15 Accepted Paper Series Suggested Citation.