Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the … global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …

Defining the ‘global middle class’ as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the … global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China’s expanding middle class in international perspective …. China’s global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …

neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate that China's global middle class grew rapidly after 2002, reaching …We investigate whether Chinese household incomes have caught up to those of the middle class in the developed world …

This chapter seeks to throw new light on the emergence of the Chinese economic middle class using data from the China … Household Income Project from 2002, 2007, and 2013. We find that between 2002 and 2013 China's income distribution was … rich if living in a high-income country, we find that the share of China's population that was middle class was extremely …

constructing a novel database covering approximately the 80% of the global output and the 60% of the world population, two major … findings stand out. First, the world underwent a spectacular process of capitalization. The share of world individuals with … capitalization process. In China, the average growth rate of capital income was 20 times higher than in western economies. The global …

in the world, by continent and by "region" (countries grouped by income level). They use a Gini decomposition that allows … these continents is explained by inequality within countries). Next the authors divide the world into three groups: the rich …

This paper evaluates the impact of China's WTO entry and the establishment of a free-trade agreement between China and … the two regions using a market-share model and assess the impact of China's WTO entry on the ASEAN-5 with an exchange rate … between China and Singapore in manufacturing goods, while the competition between China and other four nations was in primary …