The Quality of Growth and Poverty Reduction in China

• Main Authors: Wang, Xiaolin (Author), Wang, Limin (Author), Wang, Yan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: International Research on Poverty Reduction,
• Subjects: Social policy.; Development economics.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Social Policy.

The rapid growth over the past three decades has been instrumental in lifting over 600 million people in China out of poverty, and people want to know why and how it happened. International evidence has made it clear that a global economy based on current patterns of consumption and production is si...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Overview
• Chapter 1 China’s Miracle in Growth and Poverty Reduction
• Chapter 2 Explaining China’s Growth Miracle
• Chapter 3 Why China Must Advance Transformation and Improve the Quality of Growth
• Chapter 4 Rising Income Inequality
• Chapter 5 Social Disparity and Inequality of Opportunity
• Chapter 6 Daunting Environmental Challenges
• Conclusion
• References.  .