China’s Regional Disparities: Experience and Policy
By Shanhui Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Xiaobo Zhang. 2011
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This paper assesses the evolution of regional disparities in China, and brings information and trends up to date. Based on this assessment, it presents the broad outline of a strategy to harmonize growth and regional equity. We consider three elements of this strategy: infrastructure, social investment and protection, and governance reform. Specific policies within this broad strategy are then discussed in light of international experience. We also propose that the Chinese government take an experimental approach to interventions, as it did in the early period of agricultural reforms, learning lessons from the outcomes before scaling up.
Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations
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- Inequality in China: An Overview (2013, unknown): “These processes may have already begun; the NBS household surveys show that since 2009, rural household income per capita has grown faster than its urban counterpart and that overall provincial income inequality appears to have leveled off and even slightly declined since 2005 (Fan et al. 2011).”
- China has reached the Lewis turning point (2011, result): “By examining the economic development process of Taiwan and South Korea over a long period ranging from the colonial era to the phase of export-oriented development, Fei and Ranis (1975) showed that these economies achieved a gradual shift in labor from rural to urban areas, with wage patterns consi”