Inequality and Growth in Modern China

Guanghua Wan is a known China specialist and applied economist, author of an expansive list of books and published papers in the top refereed journals. His recent work focuses on inequality and poverty in China and elsewhere and has appeared in the Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Review of Development Economics. He is among the leading group of researchers to develop and apply the regression-based inequality decomposition framework. Dr Wan has served as a consultant to many international organizations and advises the Chinese government on rural development, income distribution, and science and technology policies. He is honorary professor of several leading universities in China including Fudan University and Zhejiang University.

• Foreword ; Introduction ; 1. The inequality-growth nexus in the short and long run: empirical evidence from China ; 2. Income inequality in China and its influencing factors ; 3. Poverty reduction in China: trends and causes ; 4. Development strategies and regional income disparities in China ; 5. Forces shaping China's interprovincial inequality ; 6. Financial Development, Growth and Regional Disparity in Post-Reform China ; 7. Spatial convergence in China: 1952-99 ; 8. China's regional inequality in innovation capability, 1995-2004 ; 9. Widening gap of educational opportunity? A longitudinal study of educational inequality in China ; 10. Poverty accounting by factor components: With an empirical illustration using Chinese data

The book is a valuable read for scholars concerned with the relatonship bewteen economic growth and inequality. This book is timely because the rapid growth of inequality in China has caused domestic demand to diminish and poverty to expand.