The Chinese social benefit system in transition: Reforms and impacts on income inequality

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1136, Issue , 2008, Pages 342-347

  Gao, Qin ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Income inequality; Rural; Social benefits; Social policy; Urban

Indexed keywords

CHINA; INCOME; MIGRATION; POLICY; RESIDENT; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 45549107446     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1425.025     Document Type: Review

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