Inequality and Growth in Modern China by Guanghua Wan (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Inequality and Growth in Modern China by Guanghua Wan This volume provides comprehensive, up to date coverage of inequality and poverty issues in China. Going beyond standard data sources and using state-of-art research techniques, this volume substantiates a number of findings and conclusions and ensures policy recommendations are reliable and robust. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This volume provides comprehensive updated coverage of inequality and poverty issues in China. Some of the methodologies developed herein are published for the first time and may be used in other contexts and for other countries. The use of different data sources and state-of-art research techniques ensures that the findings and conclusions can be substantiated and that the policy recommendations are reliable and robust. Contributors to this volume are renownedexperts in their respective areas, including, notably, Justin Lin, Xing Meng, Kai-yuen Tsui, and Guanghua Wan. For these reasons, those with an interest in income distribution in general and Chinasdevelopment in particular, will find this volume essential reading.Rapidly rising inequality in China has contributed to the sluggishness of domestic demand and emerging poverty. It has thus exerted considerable pressure for commodity exports and represents a root cause of increased trade disputes. These have profound ramifications for the US, EU, and other economies, and the international business community. Consequently, economists and sociologists, among others, areincreasingly focused upon inequality and poverty issues in China and relevant policy implications.This volume, arising from a two-year UNU-WIDER project, addresses issues thatinclude the inequality-growth relationship, regional/personal variation in incomes and human well-being such as education, the determinants of inequality and poverty or their changes, gaps in innovation capability, and the role played by Chinas development strategies in affecting inequality. Author Biography Guanghua Wan is a known China specialist and applied economist, author of an expansive list of books and published papers in the top refereed journals. His recent work focuses on inequality and poverty in China and elsewhere and has appeared in the Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Review of Development Economics. He is among the leading group of researchers to develop and apply the regression-based inequality decompositionframework. Dr Wan has served as a consultant to many international organizations and advises the Chinese government on rural development, income distribution, and science and technology policies. He ishonorary professor of several leading universities in China including Fudan University and Zhejiang University. Table of Contents Anthony Shorrocks: ForewordGuanghua Wan: Introduction1: Guanghua Wan, Ming Lu, and Zhao Chen: The inequality-growth nexus in the short and long run: empirical evidence from China2: Xiaolu Wang: Income inequality in China and its influencing factors3: Yin Zhang and Guanghua Wan: Poverty reduction in China: trends and causes4: Justin Yifu Lin and Peilin Liu: Development strategies and regional income disparities in China5: Kai-yuen Tsui: Forces shaping Chinas interprovincial inequality6: Zhicheng Liang: Financial Development, Growth and Regional Disparity in Post-Reform China7: Patricio Aroca, Dong Guo, and Geoffrey J. D. Hewings: Spatial convergence in China: 1952-998: Peilei Fan and Guanghua Wan: Chinas regional inequality in innovation capability, 1995-20049: Min-Dong Paul Lee: Widening gap of educational opportunity? A longitudinal study of educational inequality in China10: Guanghua Wan: Poverty accounting by factor components: With an empirical illustration using Chinese data Review `Over the past three decades, China has made huge strides in its battle against poverty as it has transformed into one of the most dynamic economies in the world. It will be harder for China to maintain its past rate of progress against poverty without addressing the problem of rising inequality. The book Inequality and Growth in Modern China provides a useful overall assessment about inequality in China, focus on inequality in view of the growing concernswith rising inequality, the cause and impacts of rising inequality, and its relation to overall growth and poverty reduction. It will not only help policy makers understand the inequality in China butalso be a useful pedagogical tool for Chinese and other researchers.Shaohua Chen, Senior Statistician, Development Research Group, the World Bank`The chapters contained in this volume offer a comprehensive view of modern Chinas experience with the triangle of growth, inequality, and poverty. They collectively provide valuable insights for other developing countries in the pursuit of inclusive growth strategies.Xianbin Yao, Director General, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank`Inequality in income and wealth, what causes it and how it affects the rest of economy, has become one of the key topics both in the economics literature and the popular press. This is because the last quarter century has witnessed a veritable exposition of inequality in almost all parts of the world. And perhaps nowhere has this exposition been as large as in China. Its impact there was softened by remarkable economic growth. Yet as regional and classfissures, reminiscent of a long-gone era, reappear, the relationship between inequality and growth is rapidly becoming one of the top political issues in China. This book addresses different facets ofChinas inequality-growth relationship, and will be a useful reading for China specialists as well as for those interested in inequality and growth as such since China is the largest laboratory where they can observe it.Branko Milanovic, Lead Economist, World Bank Research Department`This volume of high quality research resulting from UNU-WIDER provides an essential reference for scholars and students worldwide in their research and studies on growth and income inequality in modern China. The editor, Dr Guanghua Wan, is one of the worlds most productive and authoritative experts on the Chinese economy.Shujie Yao, Professor of Economics and Chinese Sustainable Development, and Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham and Special Chair Professor of Economics, Xian Jiaotong University`The papers collected in this book come from leading scholars studying Chinas inequality issues. It is a timely book. Rising inequality in China is well known; less well known are the linkages between various aspects of Chinas economic growth strategy and inequality. This book offers fresh perspectives as well as solid evidence for a better understanding of these linkages. It is a valuable reference for scholars concerned with the relationship betweeneconomic growth and inequality as well as for students on China.Yang Yao, Deputy Director, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University Promotional The result of a two-year UNU-WIDER project, this edited volume examines Chinas inequality-growth relationship Long Description This volume provides comprehensive updated coverage of inequality and poverty issues in China. Some of the methodologies developed herein are published for the first time and may be used in other contexts and for other countries. The use of different data sources and state-of-art research techniques ensures that the findings and conclusions can be substantiated and that the policy recommendations are reliable and robust. Contributors to this volume are renownedexperts in their respective areas, including, notably, Justin Lin, Xing Meng, Kai-yuen Tsui, and Guanghua Wan. For these reasons, those with an interest in income distribution in general and Chinas development in particular, will find this volume essential reading.Rapidly risinginequality in China has contributed to the sluggishness of domestic demand and emerging poverty. It has thus exerted considerable pressure for commodity exports and represents a root cause of increased trade disputes. These have profound ramifications for the US, EU, and other economies, and the international business community. Consequently, economists and sociologists, among others, are increasingly focused upon inequality and poverty issues in China and relevant policyimplications.This volume, arising from a two-year UNU-WIDER project, addresses issues that include the inequality-growth relationship, regional/personal variation in incomes and human well-being such as education, the determinants of inequality and poverty or their changes, gaps in innovationcapability, and the role played by Chinas development strategies in affecting inequality. Review Text `Over the past three decades, China has made huge strides in its battle against poverty as it has transformed into one of the most dynamic economies in the world. It will be harder for China to maintain its past rate of progress against poverty without addressing the problem of rising inequality. The book Inequality and Growth in Modern China provides a useful overall assessment about inequality in China, focus on inequality in view of the growing concernswith rising inequality, the cause and impacts of rising inequality, and its relation to overall growth and poverty reduction. It will not only help policy makers understand the inequality in China but also be a useful pedagogical tool for Chinese and other researchers.Shaohua Chen, Senior Statistician, Development Research Group, the World Bank`The chapters contained in this volume offer a comprehensive view of modern Chinas experience with the triangle of growth, inequality, and poverty. They collectively provide valuable insights for other developing countries in the pursuit of inclusive growth strategies.Xianbin Yao, Director General, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank`Inequality in income and wealth, what causes it and how it affects the rest of economy, has become one of the key topics both in the economics literature and the popular press. This is because the last quarter century has witnessed a veritable exposition of inequality in almost all parts of the world. And perhaps nowhere has this exposition been as large as in China. Its impact there was softened by remarkable economic growth. Yet as regional and classfissures, reminiscent of a long-gone era, reappear, the relationship between inequality and growth is rapidly becoming one of the top political issues in China. This book addresses different facets of Chinas inequality-growth relationship, and will be a useful reading for China specialists as well as forthose interested in inequality and growth as such since China is the largest laboratory where they can observe it.Branko Milanovic, Lead Economist, World Bank Research Department`This volume of high quality research resulting from UNU-WIDER provides an essential reference for scholars and students worldwide in their research and studies on growth and income inequality in modern China. The editor, Dr Guanghua Wan, is one of the worlds most productive and authoritative experts on the Chinese economy.Shujie Yao, Professor of Economics and Chinese Sustainable Development, and Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham and Special Chair Professor of Economics, Xian Jiaotong University`The papers collected in this book come from leading scholars studying Chinas inequality issues. It is a timely book. Rising inequality in China is well known; less well known are the linkages between various aspects of Chinas economic growth strategy and inequality. This book offers fresh perspectives as well as solid evidence for a better understanding of these linkages. It is a valuable reference for scholars concerned with the relationship betweeneconomic growth and inequality as well as for students on China.Yang Yao, Deputy Director, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University Review Quote This volume of high quality research resulting from UNU-WIDER provides an essential reference for scholars and students worldwide in their research and studies on growth and income inequality in modern China. The editor, Dr Guanghua Wan, is one of the worlds most productive and authoritativeexperts on the Chinese economy.Shujie Yao, Professor of Economics and Chinese Sustainable Development, and Head of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham and Special Chair Professor of Economics, Xian Jiaotong University Feature Comprehensive coverage of topics relating to inequality and poverty in ChinaUtilizes alternative data sets to produce roboust and reliable policy recommendationsDiscusses the impact of increasing inequality in China on the global economy, and specifically the US and EU Details ISBN0199535191 Short Title INEQUALITY & GROWTH IN MODERN Language English ISBN-10 0199535191 ISBN-13 9780199535194 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY 338.951 Year 2008 Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Guanghua Wan Affiliation Senior Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER Series WIDER Studies in Development Economics DOI 10.1604/9780199535194 Author Guanghua Wan UK Release Date 2008-04-03 AU Release Date 2008-04-03 NZ Release Date 2008-04-03 Birth 1942 Position Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine Qualifications PhD Pages 236 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2008-04-03 Illustrations numerous tables and figures Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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