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Authors recent

UNU-WIDER publications

on Inequality and Poverty

in China

Journal of Comparative Economics,

006,4(4).UNU-WIDER

Symposium:Analyzingthe

SocioeconomicConsequenceso

RisingInequalityinChina,

co-guesteditedwithZhangXiaobo.

RisingInequalityinChina:

pp.65(withZhangXiaobo)

TheInequalityGrowthNexusintheShortRunandLong

Run,EmpiricalEvidencerom

China:pp.65467(withLuMing

andChenZhao)

TheImpactoGrowthand

InequalityonRuralPoverty:

pp.6947(withZhangYin).

Income Inequality and Poverty in

Transition China,co-editedwith

FangCai,006,SocialSciences

AcademicPress(China)

(inChinese).The Review of Income and Wealth,

007,5().UNU-WIDERSpecial

Issue:InequalityandPoverty

inChina,guesteditedby

GuanghuaWan.

UnderstandingRegionalPoverty

andInequalityTrendsinChina:

MethodologicalandEmpirical

Issues:pp.54

GlobalizationandRegional

InequalityinChina:Evidencerom

withinChina:pp.559

(withLuMingandChenZhao)

ChinasUrbanPovertyandits

ContributingFactors,986-000:

pp.6789(withMengXinand

GregoryRobert).


China,editedbyGuanghuaWan,

008,OxordUniversityPress.

PovertyAccountingbyFactor

Components:WithanEmpiricalIllustrationUsingRuralChinese

Data:pp.8404.

Understanding Inequality and Povertyin China: Methods and Applications,

editedbyGuanghuaWan,008,

PalgraveMacmillan.

Poverty,Pro-PoorGrowth,

andMobility:ADecomposition

FrameworkwithApplicationto

China:pp.5070

(withZhangYin).

Review of Development Economics,

guesteditedbyGuanghuaWan,

008,PovertyandInequality

inChina.

PovertyDecompositionby

FactorComponents:

ARegression-basedApproach

withApplicationtoChina

(withZhangYin).

Authors other recent

publications

Australian Journal of Agricultural and

Resource Economics,Changesin

RegionalInequalityinRuralChina:DecomposingtheGiniIndexby

IncomeSources,00,45():

68.

Journal of Comparative Economics,

AccountingorIncomeInequality

inRuralChina:ARegressionBased

Approach,004,():486.

Review of Development Economics,

IncomeInequalityinRuralChina:

Regression-basedDecomposition

UsingHouseholdData,005,9:

070(withZhouZhangyue).

Economic Growth and IncomeDistribution: Methods and Evidence,

006,ShanghaiSannianShudian

(inChinese).

Research Policy(orthcoming)

ChinasRegionalInequalityin

InnovationCapability:995-006

(withFanPeilei).


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985.TheInstituteundertakesappliedresearchandpolicyanalysison

structuralchangesaectingthedevelopingandtransitionaleconomies,

providesaorumortheadvocacyopoliciesleadingtorobust,

equitable,andenvironmentallysustainablegrowth,andpromotescapacitystrengtheningandtraininginthefeldoeconomicandsocial

policymaking.Workiscarriedoutbystaresearchersandvisiting

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