China's Retreat from Equality: Income Distribution and Economic Transition

by Carl Riskin, Zhao Renwei, Li Shih

Overview

A collection of 13 essays based on two national surveys of household income in China - in 1985 and 1995 - and prepared and carried out by the research team. These essays explore a wide range of aspects of the rapidly changing income distribution during this period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765606907
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/30/2000
Series:	Asia and the Pacific Series
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carl Riskin, Zhao Renwei, Li Shih

Table of Contents

1: Introduction The Retreat from Equality: Highlights of the Findings; I: Perspectives on Increasing Inequality; 2: Increasing Income Inequality and Its Causes in China; 3: A More Unequal China? Aspects of Inequality in the Distribution of Equivalent Income; 4: Economic Growth, Economic Reform, and Rising Inequality in China; II: Urban China; 5: Income Distribution in Urban China During the Period of Economic Reform and Globalization; 6: A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality; 7: Urban Housing Welfare and Income Distribution; 8: Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China; III: Rural China; 9: Rural Interregional Inequality and Off-Farm Employment in China; 10: Food Security of Low Income Groups in Rural China; 11: Reexamining the Distribution of Wealth in Rural China; 12: Gender Effects on Household Resource Allocation in Rural China; 13: Labor Migration and Income Distribution in Rural China; 14: Chinese Rural Poverty Inside and Outside the Poor Regions

Editorial Reviews

Chinese, American, and European economists present evidence that China has not escaped the growing inequality of income that has characterized international economic development in the recent decades. Using data from two national surveys of household income designed by authors here from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, they investigate various issues that are involved either as causal influences of the income distribution profile, or outcomes of it, or both. One section considers national perspective, and the other two look at urban and rural conditions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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