to analyze recent trends in inequality in China. We begin with an overview of relevant economic and policy developments … in China and discuss data and measurement issues. We discuss our central estimates of national income inequality based on … various chapters in the book, we identify six key findings. First, during the period of study income inequality in China …

In this chapter we examine trends in China's household incomes, income distribution and inequality for China as a whole … estimates show a decline in national inequality from 2007 to 2013. This decline is robust to alternative income definitions and … different inequality indexes. The decline reflects reductions in important dimensions of inequality including the rural …

We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 … to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In …

The purpose of this work is to evaluate the redistributive role of government social security transfers on inequality … in China. We attempt to answer two questions. First, does inequality of after-transfer income narrow, compared to that of … small percentage increase in the transfers narrow or widen the inequality of total income? By employing the methodologies of …