, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …

The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as "China's Kuznets curve." We show that … the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little … agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed …

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 … effects alongside either economic growth or population urbanization (including among those below the national median). There …

also highlighted their pathological problems. This paper studies the case of China for pitfalls of a state … within China is low. Furthermore, to the extent some capital moves around the country, the government (as opposed to the …