The Chinese Path to Common Prosperity

Figures & data

Figure 1. Provincial, prefectural and rural-urban inequalities (1952–2020). Sources: Elaborated from national and provincial statistical yearbooks.²⁷

Figure 2. China’s income inequality (1981–2019). Sources: China Statistical Yearbooks Database (1981–2021);²⁸ Ravallion and Chen (2004, 46).

Ravallion, M., and S. Chen. 2004. “China’s (Uneven) Progress against Poverty.” World Bank policy research working paper, no. 3408, World Bank, Washington DC. Accessed December 1, 2021. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/14241/WPS3408.pdf;sequence=1.

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