Income Inequality in the People's Republic of China: Trends, Determinants, and Proposed Remedies

Wang, Chen; Wan, Guanghua; Yang, Der‐Ching

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“…However, this growth has been uneven across the country, resulting in significant and still growing regional inequality in economic development, with the inland regions lagging far behind the coastal regions. An ever-increasing body of research has attempted to describe and explain the patterns of regional inequality in China (see Wang et al, 2014, for a recent survey), even though the various dimensions of this issue have not received the same degree of attention in the literature (Tsui, 1993). The general research agenda has mainly focused on the dimensions of inland-coastal inequality, rural-urban inequality, and inter-provincial inequality at the aggregated country level.…”

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Fiscal decentralization, equalization, and intra-provincial inequality in China

Liu

Martínez-Vázquez

2016

Int Tax Public Finance

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Fiscal decentralization, equalization, and intra-provincial inequality in China

Liu

Martínez-Vázquez

2016

Int Tax Public Finance

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“…In terms of telecommunications, the number of landline telephone subscribers rose from 1.47 million in 1990 to 97.8 million in 2010 in rural PRC. 2 Meanwhile, worsening income distribution has been ranked among the top three most serious socioeconomic and policy issues for decades in the PRC (Wan 2007(Wan , 2008a(Wan , 2008bWang, Wan, and Yang 2014). As Figure 1 illustrates, the overall regional inequality measured by the Theil index rose from a low level of less than 0.04 in 1983 to an alarmingly high 0.18 in 2009, almost quadrupling within a short period of two and half decades.…”

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Who Gains More from Which Infrastructure in Rural People's Republic of China?

Wan

Zhang

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Asian Development Bank InstituteThe Working Paper series is a continuation of the formerly named Discussion Paper series; the numbering of the papers continued without interruption or change. ADBI's working papers reflect initial ideas on a topic and are posted online for discussion. ADBI encourages readers to post their comments on the main page for each working paper (given in the citation below). Some working papers may develop into other forms of publication. Xun Zhang is an assistant professor at Beijing Normal University.The authors are grateful to the Natural Science Foundation of China for its support through NSFC project 71133004. Comments from participants of various seminars, GDN, and ADBI workshops are acknowledged.The views expressed in this paper are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of ADBI, ADB, its Board of Directors, or the governments they represent. ADBI does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this paper and accepts no responsibility for any consequences of their use. Terminology used may not necessarily be consistent with ADB official terms.Working papers are subject to formal revision and correction before they are finalized and considered published.Asian Development Bank Institute Kasumigaseki Building 8F 3-2-5 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-6008, Japan AbstractThe importance of infrastructure in economic development has been increasingly recognized by governments, development institutions, and the research community. Despite a sizable literature on its efficiency and growth effects, the distributive impacts of infrastructure have been largely overlooked, with a few recent exceptions. This is regrettable, particularly given the overwhelming concern about inequality and inclusive growth all over the world. This paper will: (i) demonstrate the deficiency of conventional approaches to modelling inequality; (ii) extend the Mincer earnings function so that both growth and distributive effects of infrastructure can be evaluated; and (iii) fit the extended model to a large sample of individual-level data from rural People's Republic of China (PRC) over

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“…It is worth noting the spatial dimension of inequality in large countries such as China, India, and Indonesia where the rural-urban divide contributes significantly to national inequality (see Shorrocks and Wan 2005). In China, this contribution amounted to more than 50 per cent of total inequality (see Wan 2007;Wang et al 2014).…”

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Poverty and Inequality

Wan¹,

Wang²

2019

Asian Transformations

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This chapter aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and individual economies. In addition to the provision of poverty and inequality profiles, this chapter addresses three related issues: what were the impacts of growth and inequality on poverty reduction in Asia? What are the drivers of absolute poverty and inequality? And what is the relationship between economic growth and inequality? Efforts are made to explain these trends and explore their interrelationships. Analytical results confirm significant reductions in poverty across the board due to fast growth, although the benign effect of growth on poverty was offset by worsening distribution in many economies. Looking ahead, Asia is expected to eradicate poverty but likely to continue facing high inequality, particularly as major technology breakthroughs such as artificial intelligence and the internet of things replace more and more labour.

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Income Inequality in the People's Republic of China: Trends, Determinants, and Proposed Remedies

Cited by 18 publications

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Fiscal decentralization, equalization, and intra-provincial inequality in China

Fiscal decentralization, equalization, and intra-provincial inequality in China

Who Gains More from Which Infrastructure in Rural People's Republic of China?

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