Growth with equity : the Taiwan case / John C. H. Fei, Gustav Ranis, Shirley W. Y. Kuo ; with the assistance of Yu-Yuan Bian, Julia Chang Collins.

Preface, xviii -- Introduction. An approach to growth with equity, 1 -- Framework of analysis, 3 -- Problems of measurement, 6 -- Problems of data, 10 -- Part one. The case of Taiwan, 17 -- 1. Historical perspective, 21 -- 2. Economic growth and income distribution, 1953-64, 37 -- 3. Growth and the family distribution of income by factor components, 72 -- 4. The inequality of family wage income, 130 -- 5. Income distribution and economic structure, 224 -- 6. Taxation and the inequality of income and expenditure, 264 -- 7. Relevance of findings for policy, 308 -- Part two. The methodology of Gini coefficient analysis, 325 -- 8. Basic concepts, 328 -- 9. Testing hypotheses, 338 -- 10. The general and special models of additive factor components, 351 -- 11. Applications and extensions of the models of decomposition, 373 -- 12. Regression analysis, homogeneous groups, and aggregation error, 386 -- Components, 405 -- Index, 411.