incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …

This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China … in rural China would decrease only marginally if such disparities were to vanish. In contrast the spatial dimension is … much more important for income inequality and for wealth inequality in rural China. -- China ; elites ; cadre …