Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62839 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 548
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, Department of Economics, London
Abstract: 
This paper carries out a pilot empirical study on how income inequality affects growth and the macro economy by means of incorporating panel data information into a macro-econometric model. China is used as the pilot field. Provincial urban and rural household data are used to construct inequality measures, which are then used to augment household consumption equations in the ADB China model. Model simulations are performed to study the effect of inequality on GDP growth and its sectoral components. Results show that inequality is a robust explanatory variable of consumption and that the way inequality develops over time carries certain negative consequences on GDP and sectoral growth.
Subjects: 
Income inequality, Growth, Econometric model, China
JEL: 
R11
E21
D3
C5
C2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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