Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China: Methods and Applications (Studies in Development Economics and Policy) - Hardcover

Wan, G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230538045 ISBN 13: 9780230538047

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

ZHAO CHEN Associate Professor of Economics, China Centre for Economic Studies (CCES), Fudan University, China; Director of the Fudan Institute for Industrial Development Studies XING CHUNBING Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Business Administration, Beijing Normal University, China QIN GAO Assistant Professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service ROBERT GREGORY Professor Emeritus, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia BJÖRN GUSTAFSSON Professor, Department of Social Work at Göteborg University, Sweden HONGBIN LI Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong ZHICHENG LIANG CERDI, CNRS, University of Auvergne (Université d'Auvergne), France MING LU Associate Professor of Economics, Fudan University, China; Director of the Centre for China Development and Policy Studies XIN MENG Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia LI 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 Sciences TERRY SICULAR Professor of Economics, University of Western Ontario, Canada XIMING YUE Professor of Economics, Renmin University, China YIN ZHANG Lecturer in Economics, School of SocialScience, University of Dundee, UK YI ZHU Department of Economics, Michigan State University

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230538045
• ISBN 13: 9780230538047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 316