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Economic growth, income distribution and poverty reduction in contemporary China
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- Creator
- Shujie Yao
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 128015442X, 0415649137, 041551133X, 1134321414, 1134321406, 9781280154423, 9780415511339, 0203398130, 9781134321414, 9780203398135, 9780415331968, 041533196X, 9781134321407
- OCLC
- ocm55131415, ocm60500995
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-264) and index.
- A brief history of contemporary China -- Comparison of economic performance in modern China -- Future prospects -- Economic development and problems in the pre-reform period -- Economic development under reforms -- Half a century of economic performance : an overview -- Agricultural and rural development in the pre-reform period -- Agriculture's role in China's economic development -- Prospects and constraints on agricultural development in the new century -- Economic performance and openness : a brief review -- How does openness affect growth? -- Economic crisis and recovery -- The Gini coefficient and its decomposition by class and income source -- An application for Sichuan province in China -- Rapid growth but a more divided nation -- A decomposition analysis of production, income and consumption inequality -- The theory of economic growth -- A model of club divergence -- An empirical model and results -- Alternative tests for club divergence -- Background of inequality -- Overall income inequality and urban-rural divide -- Rural income inequality and income sources -- Urban inequality and income sources -- Income inequality and poverty under economic reforms -- A brief literature review on economic growth, income inequality and poverty reduction in China -- Poverty and its determinants in urban China -- Poverty and poverty determinants in rural China -- Why SOEs have to lay off workers and how redundancy affects poverty? -- Household survey data and definition of poverty lines -- Data analysis -- Development strategy and rural-urban migration -- A theoretical model of migration -- An empirical model of migration for China