Back to Search
Start Over
Short-term trends in China’s income inequality and poverty: evidence from a longitudinal household survey.
- Source :
- China Economic Journal; Oct2015, Vol. 8 Issue 3, p235-251, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
-
Abstract
- 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- INCOME inequality
POVERTY
HOUSEHOLD surveys
LONGITUDINAL method
DATA analysis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17538963
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- China Economic Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 111728104
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17538963.2015.1108118