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 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …

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 …

In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the …, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets inverted-U path of inequality. The second is the economic transition … inequality through social and welfare policies. …

"Examines the evolution of economic inequality in China from 2002 to 2007; a sequel to Inequality and Public Policy in …