China has departed from the East Asian development model by letting inequality rise to a high level, which is now …. If inequality persists, China may get caught in the ¡°inequality-trap,¡± which may then lead to the middle income trap … (MIT). Fortunately, China still has the levers to pull to reduce inequality and avoid the MIT. Measures along both the …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns concerning the trajectory of inequality through the reform period. We …

the major source, followed by the 'growth mobility'. The comparison with income inequality indicated that the low degree … of mobility is not conducive to the narrowing of inequality. However, the high degree is not accompanied by the …

Income Growth and Income Inequality on Rural Poverty -- Chapter 6 Types of Economic Activities and Rural Residents’ Poverty …This book aims to empirically and theoretically study how the economic growth and inequality affected China’s rural … inequality usually links with unfairly shared of the economic growth, which is not good for the poor, and this book particularly …