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China's Retreat from Equality: Income Distribution and Economic Transition
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Description: This study focuses on measuring and analyzing the changes that have occured in the distribution-related aspects of China's economy over a critical seven year period of reform and transition to a market system. It is based on two national survey of household income in China -- in 1988 and 1995 -- prepared and carried out by the research team. Using this data leading Chinese and Western economists explore a wide range of aspects of the rapidly changing income distribution, including increasing inequality and its causes, urban wages, the gender earnings gap, rural migration, income distribution and food security, and more.
Selected Contents:
Introduction--The Retreat from Equality: Highlights of the Findings, Carl Riskin, Zhao Renwei and Li Shi
Part I. PERSPECTIVES ON INCREASING INEQUALITY
Increasing Income Inequality and its Causes in China, Zhao Renwei
A More Unequal China? Aspects of Inequality in the Distribution of Equivalent Income, Bjorn Gustafsson & Li Shi
Economic Growth, Economic Reform and Rising Inequality in China,John Knight & Lina Song
Part II. URBAN CHINA
Income Distribution in Urban China During the Period of Economic Reform and Globalization, Azizur Rahman Khan, Keith Griffin and Carl Riskin
A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality John Knight, Li Shi & Zhao Renwei
Urban Housing Welfare and Income DistributionWang Lina
Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China, Bjorn Gustafsson and Li Shi
Part III. RURAL CHINA
Rural Interregional Inequality and Off-Farm Employment in China, Zhang Ping
Food Security of Low-Income Groups in Rural China, Zhu Ling
Reexamining the Distribution of Wealth in Rural China, Mark Brenner
Gender Effects on Household Resource Allocation in Rural China, Lina Song
Rural Migration and Income Distribution in Rural China, LI Shi
Chinese Rural Poverty Inside and Outside the Poor Regions, Carl Riskin & Li Shi
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Review(s): ...it does provide an excellent collection of research results, which will be useful for those interested in income distribution in general and the problems of growing income inequality in China in particular. Those doing research on so-called transitional economies will also find it useful. Recommended for libraries supporting research collections in the areas of economic development, comparative economic systems, and political economy. Choice
...take[s] us a long way towards understanding the nature and the processes of the income inequality in China that grew during the critical opening-up period between 1988 and 1995. ...covering an impressively broad range of issues...top-rank, frank analysts... Even an uncomprehending, non-statistician can be impressed by the array of analytical tools that have been brought in to slice and dice and analyze these data sets. The China Journal No. 49
...this volume is highly informative. Pacific Affairs: Vol. 76 No. 3
This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics of income distribution and its consequences in China in recent decades. Journal of Asian Business, Vol.21, No.1
    
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