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

[Martin Hart-Landsberg <marty@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the news--but why no direct Indian marketing?   I will have my people contact their people to find out the answer!

The book is based on a roundtable discussion of Paul and my MR publication-China and Socialism, Market Reform and Class Struggle.  Several critical comments by editors of the journal Critical Asian Studies and our response to them, with an overall summary and introduction by Hari P. Sharma.  If you want to see our response check out: http://www.lclark.edu/~marty/China%20Roundtable%20part%202.pdf

Marty

Anthony D'Costa wrote:

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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