Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/211191 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2018/153
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
By using the five waves of the China Household Income Project surveys conducted during 1988-2013, this paper investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a small amount. The main reason for the rise in income inequality was that high-income percentiles had faster income growth than lower percentiles; the fall in income inequality implies faster income growth among low-income percentiles. The paper also indicates a considerable poverty reduction during China's economic transition, mainly because of the growth effect of poverty decomposition.
Subjects: 
income inequality
poverty
Gini decomposition
GE decomposition
poverty decomposition
JEL: 
D31
D63
I32
O15
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-595-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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