China & World Economy Volume 30 Number 1 January–February 2022
Special Issue:
Development,Inequality,and Common Prosperity
Guest Editors: Shi Li, Ximing Yue
Guest Editors’ Introduction
Shi Li, Ximing Yue 1
The Rise of China’s Global Middle Class in an International Context
Terry Sicular, Xiuna Yang, Björn Gustafsson 5
Growth and Common Prosperity in China
Nanak Kakwani, Xiaobing Wang, Ning Xue, Peng Zhan 28
Evaluating the Redistributive Effect of Social Security Programs in China over the Past 30 Years
Meng Cai, Jing Xu 58
Exploring China’s Potential Child Poverty
Yangyang Shen, Sabina Alkire 82
The Consumption-Stimulating Effect of Public Rental Housing in China
Xiaokuai Shao, Yujin Cao, Yangchuan Teng, Jidong Chen, Liutang Gong 106
Self-employment in Rural China: Its Development, Characteristics, and Relation to Income
Björn Gustafsson, Yudan Zhang 136
Self-employment in Urban China:Entrepreneurship or Disguised Unemployment?
Xinxin Ma, Shi Li 166
Table of Content,2021 196