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Economic transformation and income distribution in China over three decades / Cai Meng, Bjorn Gustafsson, John Knight

By: Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Cambridge elements. Elements in development economicsPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:
  • 9781009357616
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: 1009357638 DDC classification:
  • 338.951 23
LOC classification:
  • HC427.92
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Contents:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 CHIP by CHIP -- 1.2 Issues and Questions -- 1.3 Objectives and Methods -- 2 Why Has China Grown So Fast? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Econometric Approaches -- 2.3 The Underlying Causes -- 2.4 China's Future Economic Growth -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Rural Development: From Being Farmer to Work as Wage Earner or Self-Employed -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Different Kinds of Employment -- 3.3 The Development of Different Kinds of Employment in Rural China -- 3.4 Analysing Type of Employment and the Pay-Off from Different Types of Employment -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4 The Labour Market and Economic Reform: From Labour System to Labour Market -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Labour System -- 4.3 The Evolving Wage Structure -- 4.4 Labour Market Segmentation -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 The Labour Market and Migration: From Labour Surplus to Labour Scarcity -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Great Migration -- 5.3 The Lewis Turning Point -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6 Public Revenues, Expenditures, and Inequality -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 A Brief Introduction to Public Revenue and Expenditure Redistributive Polices in China -- 6.3 The Redistributive Effect of Public Expenditures and Revenues -- 6.4 Conclusions -- 7 The Urban-Rural Gap and the Changed Distribution of Income and Wealth -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Urban-Rural Income and Wealth Gaps -- 7.3 How Have the Urban-Rural Income and Wealth Ratios Changed? What the Data Show -- 7.4 Income Inequality and Household Wealth at the Household Level: How Has It Changed? -- 7.5 Conclusions -- 8 The Development of Inequality of Opportunities and Poverty -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Why Study IOp? -- 8.3 How Has IOp in China Developed?.
8.4 How Poverty Is Defined and Combated in Rural China -- 8.5 The Poverty Reduction Effect of Some Public Policies in Rural China in 2002, 2013, and 2018 -- 8.6 Poverty in Urban China -- 8.7 Conclusions -- 9 Inequality by Gender and Ethnicity -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Understanding the Development of the Aggregate Gender Wage Gap -- 9.3 What Research and the Surveys Show -- 9.4 The Meaning of Ethnicity in China -- 9.5 What Research Shows -- 9.6 Conclusions -- 10 The Growth of China's Middle Class -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Meaning and Measurement of China's Global Middle Class -- 10.3 How China's Global Middle Class Has Risen and What Characterises It -- 10.4 An International Comparison -- 10.5 Conclusions -- 11 Summary and Final Comments -- 11.1 Summary -- 11.2 Final Comments -- Appendix -- References.
Summary: It is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China, from being on a par with Sub Sahara Africa at the start of economic reform to being an economic superpower today. That rise remains under-researched. Moreover, the great structural changes which accompanied economic growth require examination. The nationally representative China Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys, conducted for the years 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, 2013, and 2018, permit a detailed examination of many important aspects of a country's economic development. Much of the analysis of this Element is closely related to, and largely caused by, China's remarkable economic growth and income distribution over the thirty years. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge CorePPN: PPN: 1916247466Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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