China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social … compact and thus the political basis for economic growth and social development. The regional dimension of inequality— rural … of us have been researching Chinese regional inequality for over a decade. In a series of papers which have been …

How does labor market competitiveness frame the impact of greater labor productivity and lower inequality on poverty …? Specifically, does greater competitiveness increase the impact of higher labor productivity and lower inequality on poverty …

characterizes the poverty minimizing minimum wage, and shows how it depends on productivity, inequality and the degree of labor …

This paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist … Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of … integration in the late 1990s. Econometric analysis establishes that regional inequality is explained in the different phases by …

differential access constitutes a source of inequality among poor individuals belonging to different communities. We show that this …

expenditures. We examine the logic of this exemption. We show that, rather than reducing inequality, philanthropy may actually … exacerbate absolute inequality, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally, philanthropic …

inequality of incomes and inequality of welfare outcomes, and (b) individuals’ material incentives for supporting income … redistribution. We show that the nominal distribution of income could give quite a misleading picture of real inequality and tensions … welfare inequality, and show that, somewhat paradoxically, individuals sometimes have incentives for opposing redistribution …