"Income inequality in China has risen rapidly in the past decades across regions, between rural and urban sectors, and … coastal urban areas. Using the China Economic, Population, Nutrition and Health Survey data of 1989 and 2004, we show that the …

"China has experienced a wide-scale and rapid transformation from an agricultural based economy to the manufacturing … shortages. The biggest challenge ahead will be for national and local governments to craft policies and rules within China …

rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an exogenous transfer to total income to decompose the Gini index. Second …

changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …-poor vertical redistribution. Without the horizontal redistribution and re-ranking, the Gini coefficient for China might have fallen …

data collected for this study through surveys. Beijing is the first choice for companies locating in China, but foreign …