. The paper ends with an empirical illustration comparing rural and urban and areas in the People's Republic of China and …

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 …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 …, documenting significant increases of inequality within China’s urban and rural populations. In rural areas, increased inequality … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been …