Economic inequality has grown sharply in China in recent decades, making a formerly egalitarian society into one of the most unequal countries in its region. What are the forces shaping this transformation and how are they likely to play out in the near future? Professor Carl Riskin will address these questions and other questions in his upcoming talk.
Carl Riskin is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at Queens College, CUNY and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is the author of China’s Political Economy: The Quest for Development since 1949 and of books and articles dealing with the impact of economic development on poverty, inequality and human development more generally. He has also done extensive consulting work for the United Nations Development Programme in China and elsewhere.