Income Inequality in China and its Influencing Factors

Inequality and Growth in Modern China

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wang, Xiaolu ^a  

^a China Reform Foundation   (China)

Author keywords

Economic development; Income per capita; Kuznets curve; Social stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650080658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199535194.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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