a certain threshold where pollution begins to fall with increasing income. In EKC analysis, the relationship between … pollution level. This study seeks to examine the pattern and nature of EKC in Africa and major income groups according to World …The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis asserts that pollution levels rises as a country develops, but reaches …

This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have … developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project … was slower in the lower part of the income distribution and thus the trend of increased income inequality in urban China …

Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …"Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases in income uncertainty in the 1990s have …