This is not a precise answer to your question but:
The Asian Development Bank has the following to say about inequality in China: "In the case of the People's Republic of China, unevenness in growth across provinces has been found to be an important contributor to increases in inequality in the early to mid-1990s. However, perhaps the largest contributor to increases in inequality from the mid-1980s to the 2004, have been differentials in incomes across rural and urban households. At the same time, uneven growth in incomes among urban households has also become a prominent source of the more recent increases in inequality."
More specifically, in a study of inequality covering 22 East Asian developing countries, the Asian Development Bank concluded, using the Gini coefficient as its measure, that China had become the region's second most unequal country, trailing only Nepal. This is not surprising considering that the Asian Development Bank found that over a roughly 10-year period (from the early 1990s to the early 2000s), China recorded the region's second highest increase in inequality, again trailing only Nepal. Using other measures of inequality, such as the earnings of the top 20 percent relative to the bottom 20 percent of the population, China recorded the greatest growth in inequality.
Marty Hart-Landsberg Michael Perelman wrote:
If we were to look at the population of the previously poor in China -- given some arbitrary definition of poor -- some moved up into the middle class and even further and some lost considerable ground -- an unintentional pun considering the land grabs that are common. Has anybody tried to quantify this?
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