Re: [Pen-l] China and the world distribution of income

["Anthony D'Costa" <promothesdcosta@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marty's book is selling in India!  Congrats!  It is being marketed,
however, to non-Indian readers abroad.

55.   Hart-Landsberg, Martin,
Critical Perspectives on China's Economic Transformation / Martin
Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett, introduction by Hari P. Sharma.
Delhi, Daanish Books.  2007.
A "Critical Asian Studies" Roundtable on the Book China and Socialism.
List Price: $ 17.50 (Ubd.)      Your Price: $ 15.80 (Ubd.)
ISBN: 8189654351                KK-62032

Cheers, Anthony

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Martin Hart-Landsberg <marty@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Anthony--
>
> China's leadership in the East Asian inequality olympics is earned through
> competition with all 22 East Asian developing countries that are members of
> the Asian Development Bank.  It just so happens that Nepal is China's
> toughest competitor.  India is just in the middle of the pack--better luck
> next year.  For more see
>
> http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/Key_Indicators/2007/pdf/Inequality-in-Asia-Highlights.pdf
>
> Marty
>
> Anthony D'Costa wrote:
>
> This is interesting.  How Nepal is in East Asia beats me!  Should
> Nepal be the comparator?  How does ADB's stats for China compare with
> India's, perhaps a better comparator?
>
> Cheers, Anthony
>
> PS: How's life Marty?
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> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Martin Hart-Landsberg <marty@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>
> This is not a precise answer to your question but:
>
>
> The Asian Development Bank has the following to say about inequality in
> China: "In the case of the People's Republic of China, unevenness in growth
> across provinces has been found to be an important contributor to increases
> in inequality in the early to mid-1990s. However, perhaps the largest
> contributor to increases in inequality from the mid-1980s to the 2004, have
> been differentials in incomes across rural and urban households. At the same
> time, uneven growth in incomes among urban households has also become a
> prominent source of the more recent increases in inequality."
>
>
>
> More specifically, in a study of inequality covering 22 East Asian
> developing countries, the Asian Development Bank concluded, using the Gini
> coefficient as its measure, that China had become the region's second most
> unequal country, trailing only Nepal.  This is not surprising considering
> that the Asian Development Bank found that over a roughly 10-year period
> (from the early 1990s to the early 2000s), China recorded the region's
> second highest increase in inequality, again trailing only Nepal.  Using
> other measures of inequality, such as the earnings of the top 20 percent
> relative to the bottom 20 percent of the population, China recorded the
> greatest growth in inequality.
>
> Marty Hart-Landsberg
>
>
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> If we were to look at the population of the previously poor in China --
> given some arbitrary definition of poor -- some moved up into the middle
> class and even further and some lost considerable ground -- an
> unintentional pun considering the land grabs that are common.  Has anybody
> tried to quantify this?
>
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