The joint UNRISD-UNESCO series of Occasional Papers on Culture and Development is a first step in facilitating and catalyzing an international debate on culture and development based on high-quality research. The present paper by Keith Griffin is the third in the series. In it, the author shows...

Based on a survey of 10,258 rural households and 9,009 urban households in China in 1988, a research project was carried out on household income and its distribution. The authors present an overview of the findings of this project. They note that the true urban-rural disparity in incomes is much...