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By Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development

ISBN-10: 9264017208

ISBN-13: 9789264017207

China has skilled astonishing fiscal progress when you consider that 1978, averaging eight to nine% in line with 12 months. accordingly, on normal, people's way of life is much better than ever ahead of in China's heritage. besides the fact that, fiscal disparities have additionally widened very considerably in this interval, elevating questions about the appropriateness and sustainability of present rules. This booklet comprises the papers from a seminar held in Paris on 20-21 October 2003 to discover the reasons of China's turning out to be monetary disparities. The seminar was once organised by means of the OECD and the nationwide improvement and Reform fee (NDRC) of China. The papers by means of chinese language and OECD specialists examine the riding forces in the back of those developments and speak about attainable coverage responses. the gathering offers many comparisons with source of revenue inequality developments in OECD nations, together with geographic disparities, and appears at how one can enhance chinese language facts on source of revenue distribution. This ebook is a part of the OECD's ongoing co-operation with non-member economies around the globe.

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3. Zhu Guolin, Fan Jianyong and Yan Yan (2002), “Theory and Data About Tepid Consumption and Income Distribution in China”, Economic Research, Vol. 5.

4. If inequality continues to grow unchecked, economic, social and political risks may be triggered. Therefore, close attention should be paid to the present income disparities (Zhang and Xu, 2002; Ye, 2002; Zhang Lei, 2002). 45 was suggested to be the suitable value for the alarming line. 45, so that the trend of increasing disparity was a reason for concern (Liu Shaobin, 2002). Yet it has also been pointed out that, due to differences in historical traditions, cultural and religious backgrounds, the development of the social security system, and international political and economic circumstances, the same level of inequality in different countries may have different influences on economic development and social stability.

The index represents the subjective feelings of people when they compare their incomes with others, or with their own expectations. In the calculation of the national Gini coefficient, the index of a certain social group should be multiplied by the population share of that group. In the case of China, the dual economic structure results in different relative deprivation indexes in the urban and rural areas, since urban and rural residents have different reference systems. An overall relative deprivation index should be multiplied with the Gini coefficient, to show the overall deprivation acknowledged by all individuals.

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