Description
Book SynopsisIncome 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 focusing on three broad themes, corresponding to three parts of the volume. Part I offers an overview of inequality in Asia, Part II focuses on the drivers of rising inequality in Asia, and Part III presents country case studies.
Table of Contents
- Part I Income Inequality in Asia
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Bihong Huang, Peter J. Morgan, and Naoyuki Yoshino
- Chapter 2 Overview of Income Inequality in Asia: Profile, Drivers, and Consequences
- Bihong Huang and Guanghua Wan
- Chapter 3 Inclusive Growth, Decomposition, Incidence, and Policies: Lessons for Asia
- Alexei Kireyev
- Chapter 4 Different Faces of Income Inequality across Asia: Decomposition across Demographic Groups
- Vladimir Hlasny
- Part II Drivers of Inequality
- Chapter 5 Impact of Macroeconomic Factors on Income Inequality in Asian Countries
- N.P. Ravindra Deyshappriya and Lakshman Kadirgamar
- Chapter 6 Education, Globalization, and Income Inequality in Asia
- Kang H. Park
- Chapter 7 Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Transition Economies of Central Asia: A Pure Empirical Study of the Post-Communist Development Era
- Odiljon Komolov
- Chapter 8 Middle-Class Composition and Growth in Middle-Income Countries
- Riana Razafimandimby Andrianjaka
- Part III Country Case Studies
- Chapter 9 Growth Pro-Poorness from an Intertemporal Perspective with an Application to Indonesia, 1997–2007
- Florent Bresson, Jean-Yves Duclos, and Flaviana Palmisano
- Chapter 10 Spatial Dimensions of Expenditure Inequality in a Decentralized Indonesia Takahiro Akita and Sachiko Miyata
- Chapter 11 The Sources of Income Inequality in Indonesia: Regression-Based Inequality Decomposition
- Eko Wicaksono, Hidayat Amir, and Anda Nugroho
- Chapter 12 Intragenerational and Intergenerational Mobility in Viet Nam
- Nguyen Tran Lam and Nguyen Viet Cuong
- Chapter 13 Foreign Direct Investment and Wage Inequality: Evidence from the People’s Republic of China
- Cen Chen, Hongmei Zhao, and Yunbo Zhou
- Chapter 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
- Zongsheng Chen, Ting Wu, and Jian Kang
