Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China

Methods and Applications

• Author(s): G. Wan,
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Pages: 293
• ISBN_10: 023058425X
  ISBN_13: 9780230584259
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Development / General , Business & Economics / Labor / General , Business & Economics / Urban & Regional , Political Science / Political Economy , Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness , Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development , Business & Economics / Economics / General , Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy , Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries ,

Description:... 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.