This paper explores the relationships between inequality, trade, and capital flows into China since the early 1990s and particularly in the first years of the present decade. We show that the rise in economic inequality in China has more to do directly with the activities associated with...

This paper was prepared for the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development. It provides evidence on the relationship between economic inequality and political regime. Where much of the literature argues that democracy is egalitarian, we find that indeed it is not, and we suggest...

This paper explores the relationships between inequality, trade, and capital flows into China since the early 1990s and particularly in the first years of the present decade. We show that the rise in economic inequality in China has more to do directly with the activities associated with China's...