Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China

ZHAO CHEN Associate Professor of Economics, China Centre for Economic Studies (CCES), Fudan University, China; Director of the Fudan Institute for Industrial Development StudiesXING CHUNBING Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University, ChinaQIN GAO Assistant Professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Social ServiceROBERT GREGORY Professor Emeritus, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, AustraliaBJÖRN GUSTAFSSON Professor, Department of Social Work at Göteborg University, SwedenHONGBIN LI Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong KongZHICHENG LIANG CERDI, CNRS, University of Auvergne (Université d'Auvergne), FranceMING LU Associate Professor of Economics, Fudan University, China; Director of the Centre for China Development and Policy StudiesXIN MENG Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, AustraliaLI SHI Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Business, Beijing Normal University, China; Director of the Center for Income Inequality and Poverty Studies, Beijing Normal University, China; Professor of Economics, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social SciencesTERRY SICULAR Professor of Economics, University of Western Ontario, CanadaXIMING YUE Professor of Economics, Renmin University, ChinaYIN ZHANG Lecturer in Economics, School of SocialScience, University of Dundee, UKYI ZHU Department of Economics, Michigan State University

• Preface; G.Wan Globalization and Regional Inequality in China: Evidence from within China; G.Wan, M.Lu& Z.Chen The Urban-Rural Gap and Income Inequality in China; T.Sicular, Y.Ximing, B.Gustafsson& L.Shi Financial Development and Income Inequality in Rural China, 1991-2000; Z.Liang Regional Income Inequality in Rural China 1985-2002: Trend, Causes and Policy Implications; G.Wan Human Capital and Wage Determination in Different Ownerships 1989-1997; X.Chunbing Income, Income Inequality, and Health: Evidence from China; H.Li& Y.Zhu Social Benefits in Urban China: Determinants and Impact on Income Inequality in 1988 and 2002; Q.Gao China Urban Poverty and its Contributing Factors, 1986-2000; X.Meng, R.Gregory& G.Wan Poverty, Pro-Poor Growth and Mobility: A Decomposition Framework with Application to China; Y.Zhang& G.Wan

The miraculous economic growth in China has, since the mid-1980s, been accompanied by rapidly rising inequality. This is slowing down poverty reduction and is tearing at China's social fabric. Understanding the causes and implications of this rising inequality is thus critical. This volume provides the most up to date and thorough empirical analyses of these crucial issues by leading China scholars. It should be required reading for China scholars as well as policy-makers trying to address this worrying rise in inequality. Stephan Klasen, Professor of Economics, University of Gottingen; Director, Courant Center 'Poverty, Equity, and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries'; Editor, The Review of Income and Wealth The book gathers a fascinating collection of articles on various aspects of income inequality and poverty in China. This is applied economics at its best, with essential policy implications for the fastest growing economy in the world for the past quarter of a century. Jacques Silber, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Founder and Former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Inequality