sides. The paper estimates how much of China's poverty rate around 1980--near the outset of Deng Xiaoping's pro … China's poverty in 1980 is attributed to the impact of the Maoist path since 1950. Further checks and tests suggest that (if … anything) this is likely to be an underestimate. It took 10-20 years for China's post-reform economy to make up the lost ground …

In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has … the potential trade-offs, the paper asks whether China's experience indicates that income-polarization was a by-product of … polarizing in China …