Demystifying Rising Inequality in Asia
Publication | February 2019
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Rising income inequality is a key challenge for policy makers in developing Asia.
Income inequality is one of the most profound social, economic, and political challenges of our time. The gap between the rich and the poor has been regarded as a major concern for policy makers. This gap is at its highest level in decades for developed economies, while the inequality trend has been rising in many developing countries. In Asia, despite recent economic growth, income distribution has been worsening as well. This book contributes to the existing literature on inequality in Asia by overviewing the new trend of inequality in Asia and investigating the drivers of rising inequality in various Asian countries.
Contents
- Part I: Income Inequality in Asia
- 1. Introduction by Bihong Huang, Peter Morgan, and Naoyuki Yoshino
- 2. Overview of Income Inequality in Asia: Profile, Drivers, and Consequences by Bihong Huang and Guanghua Wan
- 3. Inclusive Growth, Decomposition, Incidence, and Policies: Lessons for Asia by Alexei Kireyev
- 4. Different Faces of Income Inequality across Asia: Decomposition across Demographic Groups by Vladimir Hlasny
- Part II: Drivers of Inequality
- 5. Impact of Macroeconomic Factors on Income Inequality in Asian Countries by N.P. Ravindra Deyshappriya
- 6. Education, Globalization, and Income Inequality in Asia by Kang H. Park
- 7. Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Transition Economies of Central Asia: A Pure Empirical Study of the Post-Communist Development Era by Odiljon Komolov
- 8. Middle-Class Composition and Growth in Middle-Income Countries by Riana Razafimandimby Andrianjaka
- Part III: Country Case Studies
- 9. Growth Pro-Poorness from an Intertemporal Perspective with an Application to Indonesia, 1997–2007 by Florent Bresson, Jean-Yves Duclos, and Flaviana Palmisano
- 10. Spatial Dimensions of Expenditure Inequality in a Decentralized Indonesia by Takahiro Akita and Sachiko Miyata
- 11. The Sources of Income Inequality in Indonesia: Regression-Based Inequality Decomposition by Eko Wicaksono, Hidayat Amir, and Anda Nugroho
- 12. Intragenerational and Intergenerational Mobility in Viet Nam by Nguyen Tran Lam and Nguyen Viet Cuong
- 13. Foreign Direct Investment and Wage Inequality: Evidence from the People’s Republic of China by Cen Chen, Hongmei Zhao, and Yunbo Zhou
- 14. Impacts of Rural Dual Economic Transformation on the Inverted-U Curve of Rural Income Inequality: An Empirical Study of Tianjin and Shandong Provinces in the People’s Republic of China by Zongsheng Chen, Ting Wu, and Jian Kang
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