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Unequal Growth: How...
Unequal Growth: How Household Incomes and Poverty in Urban China Have Developed since 1988, with an Emphasis on the Period from 2007 to 2013
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- Gustafsson, Björn, 1948 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete,Department of Social Work
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Sai, Ding (author)
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- Beijing, Kina : China Financial & Economic Publishing House, 2017
- 2017
- Chinese.
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In: The Latest Changes of Income Distribution Pattern in China - A study on the income distribution of Chinese residents (V)). - Beijing, Kina : China Financial & Economic Publishing House. - 9787509578971 ; , s. 119-139
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- This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project (CHIP) to show that during a period when many countries in the West were experiencing stagnating or falling incomes, household incomes in urban China were growing by an average of 7 percent per annum. However, unlike during previous periods, earnings were growing by not more than 3 percent per annum, but pensions and imputed rents of owner-occupied housing were growing more rapidly. The trend whereby fewer persons in urban China have incomes that are lower than the poverty line, expressed as the constant purchasing power, continued between 2007 and 2013. We also show that income growth from 2007 to 2013 was slower in the lower part of the income distribution and thus the trend of increased income inequality in urban China continue d. This also applied to the number of people falling below the relative poverty line
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Sociology (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Income
- Poverty
- Urban China
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- ref (subject category)
- kap (subject category)
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