Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China Methods and Applications

by Wan, Guanghua

• ISBN13: 9780230538047
• ISBN10: 0230538045
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The ongoing campaign of 'western development' launched in 1999 and the recent Chinese government initiative of 'building a harmonious society' highlight the urgency and significance of analyzing inequality and poverty. Prominent contributors from China and around the world explore trends of inequality and poverty in China, identify their causes and assess their consequences. Issues explored within this volume include regional/personal variation in incomes, measures of human wellbeing - such as health and education - the gap between the coastal regions (which have strongly benefited from the expansion of China's exports) and the interior regions, and urban-rural disparity. This volume also examines the impact that a variety of different factors have had in determining inequality and poverty and their dynamics. Factors examined include resource endowment, location (including proximity to major transport links such as coastal ports) , historical differences in the pace of economic development, the uneven impact of economic reform and imbalance in the provision of economic and social infrastructure.

Author Biography

GUANGHUA WAN is a Senior Research Fellow and Project Director at UNU-WIDER. Previously, he taught econometrics and development economics at the University of New England and the University of Sydney. He is an honorary professor at several leading universities in China and a prolific researcher - with over fifty analytical papers in reputable refereed journals, Guanghua Wan is a pioneer in developing regression-based decomposition techniques for inequality and poverty accounting.

Table of Contents

Preface

Globalization and Regional Inequality in China: Evidence from within China

The Urban-Rural Gap and Income Inequality in China

Financial Development and Income Inequality in Rural China, 1991-2000

Regional Income Inequality in Rural China 1985-2002: Trend, Causes and Policy Implications

Human Capital and Wage Determination in Different Ownerships 1989-1997

Income, Income Inequality, and Health: Evidence from China

Social Benefits in Urban China: Determinants and Impact on Income Inequality in 1988 and 2002

China Urban Poverty and its Contributing Factors, 1986-2000

Poverty, Pro-Poor Growth and Mobility: A Decomposition Framework with Application to China

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