Could ecological restoration reduce income inequality? An analysis of 290 Chinese prefecture-level cities

Ma, Zihao; Tian, Xin; Zhang, Pingdan

doi:10.1007/s13280-022-01815-y

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“…After addressing the issue of extreme poverty, the government has declared common prosperity as an important goal for the mid-21st century, which is at the same time a basic requirement for the realization of socialism (CPGPRC, 2021a). Common prosperity includes the pursuit of both "economic growth" and "reducing inequality" (Chen and Zhang, 2023;Ma et al, 2023). Since we pay more attention to the issue of equality in this paper, we use shared prosperity, which is similar to the term "common prosperity", both of which seek to enable the poor to bene t from economic growth (Dollar et al, 2015), and is more easily understood by Western scholars.…”

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What are the Stumbling Blocks to Shared Prosperity in China?

Guo,

Yang,

Cao

2024

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What are the Stumbling Blocks to Shared Prosperity in China?

Guo,

Yang,

Cao

2024

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What are the stumbling blocks to shared prosperity in China

Guo,

Yang,

CAO

2024

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statement: Sharing prosperity is a goal of human society, but unreasonable income distributions develop that lead to social unrest and regime change. However, around the world, a small number of people have begun to own most of society’s wealth. China, the world's largest socialist country, is supposed to fight for the rights of the proletariat, but has also been suffering from an increasingly serious wealth inequality. We studied the available income data for Chinese provinces (from 2003 to 2019) and in contrast with previous research, found that the wealth gap depended on how the inequality index was calculated and on differences in regional characteristics. Our results provide insights that will benefit other countries plagued by wealth inequality.

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What are the stumbling blocks to shared prosperity in China

Guo,

Yang,

CAO

2024

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Wealth inequality, which has caused repeated economic crises and led to regime change throughout history, continues to harm people around the world. The solution is to share prosperity, and this has become a political goal pursued by many governments. To find an effective way to achieve shared prosperity, we must recognize the causes of inequality between the rich and the poor so we can apply the right corrective measures. In the present study, we used the most recent available data for China to examine income inequality from three perspectives (the urban-rural gap, industrial gap, and regional disparities) to identify the underlying structural factors influencing economic inequality in China. We found that urbanization was a decisive factor in reducing the urban–rural income gap, but that it widened the industrial and regional income gaps. Transfer payments, social security, and agricultural mechanization all reduced income inequality, whereas basic and higher education had different effects for the three income gaps, and fiscal decentralization reduced the regional gap but widened the urban-rural and industrial gaps. In our study of regional differences, we found that structural factors in western China were the most responsive to income inequality. Thus, achieving urban-rural integration, improving agricultural mechanization, enhancing social security coverage, providing financial transfers to low-income enterprises, promoting regional equity in education, and improving local government assessment indicators will be the key to achieving shared prosperity. China's decision-making on the road to achieving shared prosperity will provide lessons for other developing countries.

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Could ecological restoration reduce income inequality? An analysis of 290 Chinese prefecture-level cities

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

What are the Stumbling Blocks to Shared Prosperity in China?

What are the Stumbling Blocks to Shared Prosperity in China?

What are the stumbling blocks to shared prosperity in China

What are the stumbling blocks to shared prosperity in China

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