In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has … the potential trade-offs, the paper asks whether China's experience indicates that income-polarization was a by-product of … recently committed to expanding the middle-income share--moving to a less polarized "olive-shaped" distribution. Recognizing …

consensus), China’s leadership has recently committed to expanding the middle-income share—striving for a less polarized “olive …-shaped” distribution. Recognizing the potential trade-offs, we ask whether rising income-polarization in China was a by-product of past …In a rare example of a national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty (for which there is broad …

consensus), China’s leadership has recently committed to expanding the middle-income share—striving for a less polarized “olive …-shaped” distribution. Recognizing the potential trade-offs, we ask whether rising income-polarization in China was a by-product of past …In a rare example of a national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty (for which there is broad …

Chen and Ravallion use China's national household surveys for rural and urban areas to measure and explain the welfare … first-order approximations based on a household model incorporating own-production activities and are calibrated to the … household-level data imposing minimum aggregation. The authors find negligible impacts on inequality and poverty in the …

Ravallion tests for external effects of local economic activity on consumption and income growth at the farm-household … level using panel data from four provinces of post-reform rural China. The tests allow for nonstationary fixed effects in …