摘要
Rich-Poor Gap at Alarming LevelA paper by the Beijing-based International Institute for Urban Development warns that beneath the profound achievements of China＇s opening-up and reform is a com-plex of risks due to the yawning wealth divide, which is approaching the limit of public tolerance. The paper says that China＇s Gini coefficient hit 0.438 in 2010, compared with 0.275 in the early 1980s, and has been increasing since the 1990s at an annual rate of 0.1 percent. The in- come disparity between China＇s urban and rural residents now stands at 330 percent, the highest in the world, and well above the runner-up, the figure for which is 200 per-cent. In the two decades from 1988 to 2007 the disparity between China＇s top 10 percent of earners and its bottom 10 percent has risen from 7.3-fold to 23-fold.
