1.Introduction -- 2. Concept of Income Distribution and Indexes and Methods for Measuring Income Inequality -- 3.Income Inequality of China’s Urban Resident and the Factors Which Impact It -- 4.Income Inequality of Chinese Rural Resident and the Factors Which Impact It -- 5.Income Inequality...

Engagement in non-agricultural activities in rural areas can be classified into survival-led or opportunity-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would...

Nonfarm activity plays an increasingly important role in rural household income. Based on data from the Living Standards Measurement Study in the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning, the authors study the distribution of nonfarm income in rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an...

Engagement in non-agricultural activities in rural areas can be classified into survival-led or opportunity-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would...

This study examines the heterogeneous effect of income diversification on Vietnamese household welfare measured by total income and consumption expenditure. In the analysis, we use quantile regression for both pooled and cross-sectional data across regions. The effects from Simpson's diversity...

We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...

We use six waves of national household surveys in Uganda, from 1992/3 to 2012/13, to study income diversification by households for a period of two decades during which the country saw sustained economic growth and poverty reduction. The income sources are agriculture (farming), agricultural...

In this paper we address the question of farm-nonfarm linkages at the household level for a case-study in Senegal. We examine whether increasing off-farm employment opportunities for rural households - resulting from increased horticulture exports and associated agro-industrialization - has...