Income disparity getting worse: Report
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China's Gini coefficient, a standard measure of a country's overall income inequality, rose to 0.473 in 2004 from 0.4 in 1993, according to a report by the Asia Development Bank (ADB) released yesterday.
It is the latest figure for assessing income disparities and crosses the international warning line of 0.4.
A coefficient of between 0.3 and 0.4 is generally [w]deemed[w] normal, but the larger it is, the more serious the inequality.
The World Bank said in a previous report that China's Gini coefficient was 0.45 in 2003, a figure that aroused widespread concern.
Government officials have said the coefficient was not accurate in reflecting China's inequality level, as it does not take into consideration of the country's regional gap in consumption.
People in many regions, they said, although earning much less than those in prosperous regions, pay much less for equivalent commodities, such as housing.
But it is undeniable that China is experiencing a very serious income disparity due to its flawed income distribution, Wang Xiaolu, deputy director of the Beijing-based National Economic Research Institute, told China Daily.
Wang said much of the so-called "grey" or hidden income of Chinese people was not included in the official figures, which, if it was, might further push up the coefficient.
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