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This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences, analyzing in detail the regional/personal variation in incomes, measures of human wellbeing, the gap between the coastal regions and the interior regions, and urban–rural disparity.

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The miraculous economic growth in China has, since the mid-1980s, been accompanied by rapidly rising inequality. This is slowing down poverty reduction and is tearing at China's social fabric. Understanding the causes and implications of this rising inequality is thus critical. This volume provides the most up to date and thorough empirical analyses of these crucial issues by leading China scholars. It should be required reading for China scholars as well as policy-makers trying to address this worrying rise in inequality. Stephan Klasen, Professor of Economics, University of Gottingen; Director, Courant Center 'Poverty, Equity, and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries'; Editor, The Review of Income and Wealth The book gathers a fascinating collection of articles on various aspects of income inequality and poverty in China. This is applied economics at its best, with essential policy implications for the fastest growing economy in the world for the past quarter of a century. Jacques Silber, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Founder and Former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality

The miraculous economic growth in China has, since the mid-1980s, been accompanied by rapidly rising inequality. This is slowing down poverty reduction and is tearing at China's social fabric. Understanding the causes and implications of this rising inequality is thus critical. This volume provides the most up to date and thorough empirical analyses of these crucial issues by leading China scholars. It should be required reading for China scholars as well as policy-makers trying to address this worrying rise in inequality. --Stephan Klasen, Professor of Economics, University of Gottingen; Director, Courant Center 'Poverty, Equity, and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries'; Editor, The Review of Income and Wealth The book gathers a fascinating collection of articles on various aspects of income inequality and poverty in China. This is applied economics at its best, with essential policy implications for the fastest growing economy in the world for the past quarter of a century. --Jacques Silber, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Founder and Former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality

Author Information

ZHAO CHEN Associate Professor of Economics, China Centre for Economic Studies (CCES), Fudan University, China; Director of the Fudan Institute for Industrial Development Studies XING CHUNBING Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University, China QIN GAO Assistant Professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service ROBERT GREGORY Professor Emeritus, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia BJÖRN GUSTAFSSON Professor, Department of Social Work at Göteborg University, Sweden HONGBIN LI Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong ZHICHENG LIANG CERDI, CNRS, University of Auvergne (Université d'Auvergne), France MING LU Associate Professor of Economics, Fudan University, China; Director of the Centre for China Development and Policy Studies XIN MENG Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia LI SHI Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Business, Beijing Normal University, China; Director of the Center for Income Inequality and Poverty Studies, Beijing Normal University, China; Professor of Economics, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences TERRY SICULAR Professor of Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada XIMING YUE Professor of Economics, Renmin University, China YIN ZHANG Lecturer in Economics, School of SocialScience, University of Dundee, UK YI ZHU Department of Economics, Michigan State University

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