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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349359610
• ISBN13: 9781349359615
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"