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

by Riskin,Carl

• ISBN13: 9780765606907
• ISBN10: 0765606909
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781315499598
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-30
• Publisher: Routledge
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Table of Contents

The Editors and Contributors	vii
List of Figures and Tables	ix
Introduction---The Retreat from Equality: Highlights of the Findings	3	(22)
Carl Riskin
Zhao Renwei
Li Shi
Part I. Perspectives on Increasing Inequality
Increasing Income Inequality and Its Causes in China	25	(19)
Zhao Renwei
A More Unequal China? Aspects of Inequality in the Distribution of Equivalent Income	44	(40)
Bjorn Gustafsson
Li Shi
Economic Growth, Economic Reform, and Rising Inequality in China	84	(41)
John Knight
Lina Song
Part II. Urban China
Income Distribution in Urban China During the Period of Economic Reform and Globalization	125	(8)
Azizur Rahman Khan
Keith Griffin
Carl Riskin
A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality	133	(34)
John Knight
Li Shi
Zhao Renwei
Urban Housing Welfare and Income Distribution	167	(17)
Wang Lina
Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China	184	(29)
Bjorn Gustafsson
Li Shi
Part III. Rural China
Rural Interregional Inequality and Off-Farm Employment in China	213	(16)
Zhang Ping
Food Security of Low-Income Groups in Rural China	229	(16)
Zhu Ling
Reexamining the Distribution of Wealth in Rural China	245	(31)
Mark Brenner
Gender Effects on Household Resource Allocation in Rural China	276	(27)
Lina Song
Labor Migration and Income Distribution in Rural China	303	(26)
Li Shi
Chinese Rural Poverty Inside and Outside the Poor Regions	329	(16)
Carl Riskin
Li Shi
Index	345