Introduction

Keith Griffin and Zhao Renwei

A chapter in The Distribution of Income in China, 1993, pp 1-22 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The distribution of income in China is a subject of great interest and considerable controversy. Part of the interest is due to the sheer size of the country: more than a billion people or one in every five persons on earth lives in China and this alone commands attention and interest. China is also the world’s largest developing country — by some indications one of the poorest of the developing countries — and the combination of a huge population and massive poverty attracts the interest of those concerned with world development. Finally, China is a socialist country undergoing major economic reforms, and after the collapse of communism in eastern and central Europe and in the former Soviet Union, China stands almost alone — with Vietnam and Cuba — in advocating a socialist path under the guidance of the Communist Party. This too focuses interest on China.

Keywords: Gini Coefficient; Economic Reform; Communist Party; Wage Income; Wage Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23026-6_1

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