Holdings: Rising Income Inequality in China : A Race to the Top

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Rising Income Inequality in China : A Race to the Top

Income inequality in China has risen rapidly in the past decades across regions, between rural and urban sectors, and within provinces. The dynamics of divergence across these sub-national areas have taken the form of a "race to the top"...

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Main Authors:	Luo, Xubei, Zhu, Nong
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE POVERTY ABSOLUTE VALUE ACCESS TO EDUCATION ACCOUNTING AGGREGATE INCOME ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES ANNUAL INCOME AVERAGE ANNUAL AVERAGE GROWTH AVERAGE GROWTH RATE AVERAGE INCOME BALANCED GROWTH BASIC EDUCATION COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE CONSUMER CONSUMER PRICE INDEX CONTRIBUTION CONTRIBUTIONS COUNTRY REGRESSIONS DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS DEMOGRAPHIC PRESSURE DENSITY CURVE DEPENDANT DEVELOPING WORLD DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS DEVELOPMENT REPORT DISPARITY IN INCOME DISTRIBUTIONAL CHANGES DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS DIVERSIFICATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC LITERATURE ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT ECONOMIC PROGRESS ECONOMIC REFORM ECONOMIC REFORMS ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMIC TRANSITION ECONOMICS LETTERS EDUCATED PEOPLE EDUCATION LEVEL EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE EMPIRICAL FINDINGS EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION FARM ACTIVITIES FARM ACTIVITY FARMERS FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS FISCAL CONSTRAINTS FIXED EFFECTS FOOD POLICY FOOD SAFETY FORMAL EDUCATION FULL EMPLOYMENT GINI COEFFICIENT GINI INDEX GOVERNMENT POLICIES GRAIN PRODUCTION GROWTH EFFECT GROWTH ELASTICITY GROWTH PERFORMANCE HEALTH CARE HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD INCOMES HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT IMPACT OF EDUCATION INCOME INCOME CHANGE INCOME DIFFERENTIALS INCOME DISPARITY INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME EQUATION INCOME GAINS INCOME GAP INCOME GROWTH INCOME GROWTH RATE INCOME INCREASE INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVEL INCOME LEVELS INCOME POVERTY INCOME SUPPORT INCOMES INCREASE IN INCOME INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INEQUALITY FALLS INEQUALITY MEASURES INEQUALITY TRENDS INTERNAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL PRICE INTERNATIONAL PRICES INVESTING LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LAND REFORM LEVEL OF EDUCATION LIVING STANDARDS LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION LOGARITHMIC SCALE LONG RUN LOWER INCOME MARGINAL RETURNS MARKET ECONOMY MEAN GROWTH MEAN INCOME MEAN INCOME GROWTH MEAN VALUE MEDIAN INCOME MIDWIFE MIGRATION MODERNIZATION NATIONAL LEVEL NON-INCOME DIMENSIONS NURSE NUTRITION OPEN ECONOMIES OWNERSHIPS PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA GROWTH RATE POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR POOR GROWTH POOR HOUSEHOLDS POOR PEOPLE POPULATION CENTER POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY DATA POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY INDEX POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY-GROWTH-INEQUALITY TRIANGLE POWER PARITY PRO-POOR PRO-POOR GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS PROPERTY RIGHTS PROPORTIONAL CHANGE PROSPERITY PUBLIC ENTERPRISES PUBLIC INVESTMENTS REAL INCOME REDUCING POVERTY REGIONAL DISPARITIES REGIONAL INEQUALITIES REGIONAL INEQUALITY REGIONAL POLICY REGRESSION RESULTS RELATIVE IMPORTANCE RELATIVE INCOME RELATIVE INCOMES REMITTANCE RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS RESPONSIBILITIES RETIRED RETIREMENT RETIREMENT AGE RETIREMENT PENSION RISING INCOME INEQUALITY RISING INEQUALITY RURAL RURAL AREA RURAL AREAS RURAL HOUSEHOLD RURAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL INCOME RURAL INEQUALITY RURAL LABOR RURAL POVERTY RURAL POVERTY RATE SEGMENTS OF SOCIETY SENIOR SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SKILL LEVEL SKILLED LABOR SKILLED WORKER STOCKS SUSTAINABLE GROWTH TYPE OF WORK UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYMENT UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION URBAN AREAS URBAN CENTERS URBAN POPULATION URBAN POVERTY URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN WORKERS URBANIZATION WAGE WAGE DIFFERENTIALS WAGE GROWTH WAGE LEVEL WAGES WHITE-COLLAR WORKERS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/08/9794547/rising-income-inequality-china-race-top http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6789

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/08/9794547/rising-income-inequality-china-race-top
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6789