to analyze recent trends in inequality in China. We begin with an overview of relevant economic and policy developments … in China and discuss data and measurement issues. We discuss our central estimates of national income inequality based on … various chapters in the book, we identify six key findings. First, during the period of study income inequality in China …

In this chapter we examine trends in China's household incomes, income distribution and inequality for China as a whole … estimates show a decline in national inequality from 2007 to 2013. This decline is robust to alternative income definitions and … different inequality indexes. The decline reflects reductions in important dimensions of inequality including the rural …

We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 … to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In …

We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …

In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the …, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets inverted-U path of inequality. The second is the economic transition … inequality through social and welfare policies. …