Has China reached the top of the Kuznets Curve?

Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 29-45

  Riskin, Carl ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 53749095483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203961971     Document Type: Chapter

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