EXCUR S US : COUNTRY PRO FI L E S
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Excursus: Country Profiles 7.1 China Population
1.371 billion
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2016
GDP per Capita
$7,924 (current USD)
2015
Income Inequality
42.16
Number of HNWI
890,000
Ranking in Giving Index
140
Philanthropic Freedom Score
2.7
5
5
2012 6
2015
7
2016
8
2015
HUDSON INSTITUTE, 2015. THE INDEX OF PHILANTHROPIC FREEDOM 2015
“While the government has shown a growing
extensive documentation. The process is also
willingness to permit small reforms, China’s
expensive, and with fees averaging between
philanthropic environment still has one of
approximately
the study’s lowest scores, ranked at 52 out
substantially more than the average annual
of 64. At present, the greatest barrier to
salary of a private sector worker. This regu-
Chinese groups is the country’s byzantine
latory environment is not onerous throughout
regulatory environment. Due to extensive
all of China, however. Some provinces, most
documentation requirements, complex regu-
notably Zhejiang and Canton, deserve credit
lations, and the uncertain legal standing of
for instituting a series of local level reforms
CSOs in Chinese law, registration usually takes
designed to address these and other issues.”
between one and three months and requires
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The World Bank. (2016). World Development Indicators. Capgemini. (2015). Asia-Pacific Wealth Report 2015. Charities Aid Foundation. (2016). CAF World Giving Index 2016. Hudson Institute. (2015). The Index of Philanthropic Freedom 2015.
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$8,000
and
$48,000,
costs