Short-term trends in China’s income inequality and poverty
Evidence from a longitudinal household survey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Y Xie (0000-0002-3240-8620, Peking University, corresponding author), Xiaobo Zhang (0000-0003-0222-2515, Peking University), Qi Xu (0000-0002-9030-9065, Nanjing University), Chunni Zhang (0000-0002-6929-3652, Peking University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 235-251 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | China Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8963 • E-ISSN: 1753-8971 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17538963.2015.1108118 |
| PMID | 30416538 |
| OpenAlex | W2196567122 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 10 |
In 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
China · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Geography · Household income · Income distribution · Inequality · Poverty · Term (time · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
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| Citations per year | 1.22 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |