Rural Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in China

Yangyang Shen is Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Resource Management, Beijing Normal University. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Nankai University. She was Postdoc at Business School of Beijing Normal University and Research Officer at Oxford Poverty and Human Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. Her research interests include development economics, welfare economics, income inequality, and poverty. Recently, her research work focuses on China’s poverty reduction policy evaluation and multidimensional poverty dynamic evolutions. She has co-authored three books and published journal at China & World Economy, Public Health, and over 30 Chinese academic journals.

• Preface.- Chapter 1 Poverty Alleviation Process in Rural China.- Chapter 2 Literature Review.- Chapter 3 Absolute and Relative Changes in Rural Poverty.- Chapter 4 Pro-poor Growth for Rural China.- Chapter 5 The Decomposition of Income Growth and Income Inequality on Rural Poverty.- Chapter 6 Types of Economic Activities and Rural Residents’ Poverty Dynamic Changes.- Chapter 7 Human Capital and Rural Residents’ Poverty Dynamic Changes.- Chapter 8 Dynamic Rural Poverty Changes by Regions: Current Status and Prospects.- Chapter 9 The Impacts of Unbalanced Development on Rural Multidimensional Poverty.- Chapter 10 Relieving Relative Poverty in Rural China.- Appendix