Average urban income increased more than 21 percent between 2005 and 2009.
Real urban disposable income grew nearly 10 percent and real rural disposable income rose more than 12 percent during the first three quarters of the year.
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The bright side is that a large portion of the urban family income is being spent on such things as special schools, tutors, computers, piano lessons and other extracurricular activities for the kids.
The most important factor pushing reform is China's large and growing urban-rural income disparities.
Mr. Otteau said foreclosure activity is heavily concentrated in specific neighborhoods, especially lower-income urban and rural areas.
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This is what we have been seeing in China today, as urban per capita income far exceeds rural incomes.
But gated communities have also grown in urban areas and among income groups other than the super wealthy.
Wang estimates that the per-capita disposable income of urban Chinese households in 2008 should be Rmb32, 154, 90% above the official data.
They also are widely concentrated in low-income, urban schools.
As the income of the urban Chinese climbed, they were now able to afford Apple products.
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Superama supermarkets, which are open 24 hours and make home deliveries, serve middle- and upper-income customers in urban areas.
Q. estimates based on a representative sample of schoolchildren with Japanese estimates based on an upper-income, heavily urban sample.
In addition, the urban sprawl meant a burgeoning low income population was desperately in need of an alternative to their current, unsatisfactory, sanitation facilities.
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Today, our cities are faced with overdevelopment that has simultaneously damaged our environment, isolated low-income communities in the urban core, and maintained an unsustainable economic model.
However, it also suggests that such convergence can be expected to take place over many decades and, in the short run, enhanced rural-urban migration might even widen the income divide between the countryside and cities.
The data represent the urban Chinese, having greater wealth and income than their rural counterparts.
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Evidence suggests that migration reform might eventually bring about the convergence of rural income levels with those of urban levels.
Universal service funds (USF) are set up by levies on telecoms in individual countries, which are then used to increase consumer access based on criteria such as income distribution, rural and urban population ratios, literacy and geography.
Born in Argentina to Cuban parents, Perez started out as an urban planner and then moved into low-income housing development.
We use a field-tested methodology with our clients that is supported by a proprietary analytic model for forecasting population and income distribution annually through 2020 in urban and rural China.
Retail sales rose 9.1% in 2003, while disposable income rose 9.3% in urban areas and 4.3% in the countryside.
On the up side, though, New York state's per capita income ranks 16th nationally, and its urban population makes heavy use of public transportation.
Scott Keller, deputy chief of staff for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says the goal of mixed-income housing is to minimize differences between the city's poor and middle-class.
Grupo MeXvi, a leading provider in Mexico of integral solutions for self-construction of low-income homes in rural and semi-urban settings, and FOMEPADE a microfinance institution pioneering micro-mortgagees, are doing their best to change that, starting with millions of Mexicans.
Members of these urban kibbutzim live on the same street, share their income and contribute to local centres for youth, physical disability and Arab-Jewish coexistence.
The rating incorporates income data from the department of Housing and Urban Development, transaction data drawn from court records by First American Real Estate Solutions, a Santa Ana, Calif.
In some coastal cities, like Shanghai, the middle income trap is changing the growth trajectory of major urban centers.
Based on the fact that many big emerging markets, especially in its big urban centers, have already hit or are near hitting the middle income trap.
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Among all of the Census Bureau's 366 metropolitan statistical areas collections of cities or counties that are economically tied to an urban core with at least 50, 000 people personal income declined in 223 areas in 2009.
One of his urban policy proposals, called Promise Neighborhoods, focuses on children in low-income neighborhoods with early childhood education and weekend community centers.
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