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UNDERSTANDING REGIONAL POVERTY AND INEQUALITY TRENDS IN CHINA: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND EMPIRICAL FINDINGS
Author(s) -
Wan Guanghua
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2007.00216.x
Subject(s) - inequality , poverty , china , economics , development economics , regional science , empirical research , public economics , economic growth , political science , sociology , mathematics , statistics , mathematical analysis , law
This paper focuses on methodological and empirical issues in analyzing regional poverty and inequality trends in China. It provides a time profile of China's regional inequality, outlines the latest development in inequality decomposition techniques, introduces six papers in this special issue of the Review , and finally offers suggestions for future research.