Chapter from: 'Rising Inequality in China: Challenge to a Harmonious Society', edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato and Terry …

Chapter from: 'Rising Inequality in China: Challenge to a Harmonious Society', edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato and Terry …

Can others learn from China's remarkable growth rate? We explore some indirect determinants of China's growth success … frontier. We conclude that such improvements in productive efficiency have been an important part of the explanation for China …

Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian …, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the …

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project …, household incomes in urban China were growing by an average of 7 percent per annum. However, unlike during previous periods …

and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in …

Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … proportion among the ethnic majority was only about half as high. Still, by far most of the poor in rural China belong to the … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …

While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up … middle ranks. -- China ; rank ; income ; income inequality …