Skip to main content

Short-term Trends in China’s Income Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from a Longitudinal Household Survey

Author(s): Xie, Yu; Zhang, Xiaobo; Xu, Qi; Zhang, Chunni

Download
To refer to this page use: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr17f54
Full metadata record
DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.authorXie, Yu-
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Xiaobo-
dc.contributor.authorXu, Qi-
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Chunni-
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10T22:08:38Z-
dc.date.available2020-03-10T22:08:38Z-
dc.date.issued2015-09-02en_US
dc.identifier.citationXie, Y, Zhang, X, Xu, Q, Zhang, C. (2015). Short-term Trends in China’s Income Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from a Longitudinal Household Survey. China Economic Journal, 8 (3), 235 - 251. doi:10.1080/17538963.2015.1108118en_US
dc.identifier.issn1753-8963-
dc.identifier.urihttp://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/pr17f54-
dc.description.abstractIn the past three decades, income inequality in China has increased rapidly relative to both China’s own past and other countries at similar levels of economic development. Using recent longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this article examines changes in income inequality and poverty prevalence between 2010 and 2012. Surprisingly, we find a modest decline in income inequality as measured by the Gini coefficients in the CFPS data. The urban–rural gap narrowed, with rural families enjoying faster income growth than urban families enjoyed. Income growth was greater for middle-income families than for families with either high or low incomes in 2010. By all measures, poverty was greatly reduced between 2010 and 2012. Two-thirds of families that had been poor in 2010 escaped poverty by 2012.en_US
dc.format.extent235 - 251en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofChina Economic Journalen_US
dc.rightsAuthor's manuscripten_US
dc.titleShort-term Trends in China’s Income Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from a Longitudinal Household Surveyen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.1080/17538963.2015.1108118-
dc.identifier.eissn1753-8971-
pu.type.symplectichttp://www.symplectic.co.uk/publications/atom-terms/1.0/journal-articleen_US

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
AM_Short_term_trends_in_Chinas_income_inequality.pdf456.92 kBAdobe PDFView/Download


Items in OAR@Princeton are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.