Benjamin, Dwayne (contributor); Brandt, Loren (contributor); … - 2006
reform which began more
than twenty-five years ago: The Gini coefficient is now around 0.45, versus 0.30 in the mid-
1980s …, and somewhere between 0.20 and 0.25 in the pre-reform period. With broadly
improving living standards, there was … the political and economic building blocks of rural
China, and these villages began the reform period with different …