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Review of Development Economics Volume 12, Issue 2
Edited by E. Kwan Choi

Special Section: Poverty and Inequality in China (in collaboration with UNU-WIDER)

Guest Editor: Guanghua Wan

We are pleased to announce that the current issue of the Review of Development Economics includes a special section on Poverty and Inequality in China; the result of a collaboration between the journal and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki. The section includes papers emerging from UNU-WIDER’s 2004/2005 research project on poverty and inequality in China. The research project was directed by Guanghua Wan, who also serves as guest editor for this section. You can read the special section free online at www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/rode/12/2, or through the links below.

Introduction to the Special Section: Poverty and Inequality in China
Guanghua Wan

How Should We Measure Poverty in a Changing World? Methodological Issues and Chinese Case Study
Lars Osberg and Kuan Xu

Gender Earnings Differential in Urban China
Meiyan Wang and Fang Cai

Explaining the Poverty Difference between Inland and Coastal China: A Regression-based Decomposition Approach
Guanghua Wan and Yin Zhang

Review of Development Economics is published by and available from Wiley-Blackwell

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/RODE

Also published by and available from Wiley-Blackwell is the Review of Income and Wealth, wherein volume 53, number 1 comprised a special issue arising from UNU-WIDER’s inequality and poverty in China research. It too is available free online:

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/roiw/53/1

See also Review of Development Economics, Volume 9, Issue 1; a UNU-WIDER Special Issue on Spatial Inequality and Development in Asia, guest edited by Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables and Guanghua Wan.