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

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

It's possible they are marketing it in India but you see the book
market is large in OECD countries and the prices are in USD.

Cheers, Anthony

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Martin Hart-Landsberg <marty@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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