Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China

Abstract

Using the latest analytical frameworks, this book conveys a comprehensive and up-to-date view of inequality and poverty in China. It focuses on regional inequality but also uses micro-level data. It utilizes alternative data sets to provide more robust results. It employs the latest methodologies to examine poverty and inequality. This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences, analyzing in detail the regional/personal variation in incomes, measures of human wellbeing, the gap between the coastal regions and the interior regions, and urban - rural disparity.