Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - In: Economic Development and Cultural Change 53 (2005) 4, pp. 769-824
In this article we analyze trends in income inequality and the distribution of income in rural China from 1987 to 1999. We find an uneven but long-run increase in inequality in rural China and show that nearly half of the rural population was not much better off in 1999 than at the start of the...