Inequality has become a central policy issue around the world. We study trends of inequality in earnings, income and wealth across households in Japan, using the National Survey of Family Income and ...
China is undergoing a dual transition from a planned to a market economy, and from a traditional agricultural to a modern industrial society. In this column, we examine how this process has come about ...
The "lost decade" is a term popularly used to describe the Japanese economy of the 1990s, the period following the bursting of the country's economic bubble. Yet even after the problems of ...