The Distribution of Income in China

This volume is a comprehensive study of the distribution of income in China. Based on original data obtained from a purpose-designed nationwide household sample survey, the book contains studies of the overall distribution of income, inequality and poverty in rural areas and wage employment in rural industries, urban wage inequalities and the relationship between education and income. An annex describes the household sample survey. Keith Griffin is the author of "Alternative Strategies for Economic Development", "The Political Economy of Agrarian Change" and "World Hunger and the World Economy", and the editor of "Institutional Reform and Economic Development in the Chinese Countryside" and "The Economy of Ethiopia". Zhao Renwei was twice the winner, in 1984 and 1986, of one of the Sun Yehfang Awards for economic research.