Date: August, 2003
Abstract: Far from being a single homogenous entity, China is a country which exhibits tremendous economic diversity and it is important, therefore, not to treat it as a single market. This diversity manifests itself in the wide disparity in incomes between urban areas on the one hand and rural areas on the other, with urban per capita disposable income standing at three times the rural level. Even within urban areas, there is an uneven distribution in terms of economic development and the standard of liv...
Research Type: F&A Review