Honoring Keith Griffin's more than 40 years of fundamental contributions to the discipline of economics, the papers in this volume reflect his deep commitment to advancing the well-being of the world's poor majority and his unflinching willingness to question conventional wisdom as to how this...

Based on a survey of 10,258 rural households and 9,009 urban households in China in 1988, a research project was carried out on household income and its distribution. The authors present an overview of the findings of this project. They note that the true urban-rural disparity in incomes is much...