Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China: Methods and Applications

by Guanghua Wan

Book Overview

This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences, analyzing in detail the regional/personal variation in incomes, measures of human wellbeing, the gap between the coastal regions and the interior regions, and urban-rural disparity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230538045
• ISBN13: 9780230538047
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.6"