On Monday, March 4, 2002 at 18:56:42 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes: >Michael Perelman wrote: > >>Wasn't Wade's point that much of the increase in inequality was within >>countries rather than between them? > >Well yeah, but there's a tendency in left discourse to bracket out >China, except to talk about sweatshops and political repression. The >U.S. recession has gotten far more PEN-L traffic than growth in >China, which has grown almost 10% a year over the last two decades. >How'd it happen? What'd it mean? What's happened to incomes across >the spectrum? Even if ineq increased, are the poor better off than >they were 10 or 20 years ago? India shows growth rates of almost 6% - >the same questions apply. I know growth is so much less fun than >crisis, but maybe a few words...
I think Sen points out that though China has grown, mortality rates have gone up markedly since market reforms were instituted (in late '70s?). So average income goes up, while length of average life goes down. Bill
