By using the five waves of the China Household Income Project surveys conducted during 1988-2013, this paper … investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … also indicates a considerable poverty reduction during China's economic transition, mainly because of the growth effect of …

In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the …