Wealth accumulation and distribution in urban China

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 761-791

  Meng, Xin ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL POWER; URBAN POPULATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34447340892     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516761     Document Type: Article

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