income inequality using household survey data is 0.464 for 2016, and it jumps to 0.646 after including the samples of the top … incomes, which demonstrates the great importance of the top incomes in estimating income inequality. …

to analyze recent trends in inequality in China. We begin with an overview of relevant economic and policy developments … in China and discuss data and measurement issues. We discuss our central estimates of national income inequality based on … various chapters in the book, we identify six key findings. First, during the period of study income inequality in China …

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 …

to analyze recent trends in inequality in China. We begin with an overview of relevant economic and policy developments … in China and discuss data and measurement issues. We discuss our central estimates of national income inequality based on … various chapters in the book, we identify six key findings. First, during the period of study income inequality in China …

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 …

urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … increase income inequality. Cross-country differences in the process of transition are also found to be significant. A …

Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and … between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …

represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although … and levels between the two wellbeing distributions. As a result, expenditure inequality is higher in China than in India …

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. …