Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China

By Sylvie Dmurger, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo, Shuming Bao, Gene H. Chang, A. Mellinger. Asian Economic Papers, 2002

568 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• Labor Migration, Human Capital Agglomeration and Regional Development in China (2012, unknown): “Other studies have documented increased income inequality between China's coastal and interior regions during the 1990s, which is attributed to economic policies and globalization that favored coastal regions (e.g. Fujita andHu, 2001; Démurger et al., 2002).”
• Limited linkages from growth engines and regional disparities in China (2004, unknown): “…Zhang studies astal ructure Zhang rocess aper, The literature on regional disparities in China takes exports and FDI into consider e.g., Yao and Liu (1998), Yao and Zhang (2001a, 2001b), Sachs and Woo (1997), (2001), Sun and Parikh (2001), Demurger (2001) and Demurger et al. (2002).”
• Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm (2005, unknown): “In the mid to late 1980s, the government expanded the number of regions where such activities were permitted, and by the 1990s, foreign trade and investment were allowed (subject to government approval) throughout the country [Demurger et al. 2002].”
• Rising Wages: Has China Lost its Global Labor Advantage? (2010, unknown): “Moreover, as Demurger et al. (2002) argues, initial economic conditions, such as advantageous geographic factors and superior endowments in physical and human capital, also helped attract FDI and promoted trade in the coastal regions.”
• The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India (2012, unknown): “However, as China is now diversifying its economy and progressively moving up the world division of labour and technology hierarchy, it needs to develop its urban system in order to attenuate congestion costs and spread development (Demurger et al., 2002).”
• Understanding Regional Economic Growth in India (2002, unknown): “Specifically, are the poorest states (especially the so-called BIMARU states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh) condemned to fall further behind the front runners, at least in relative terms?”
• Towards a system of open cities in China: Home prices, FDI flows and air quality in 35 major cities (2009, unknown): “In accord with the cross-national economic geography literature (Demurger et al. 2002; Gallup et al., 1998), we believe that a city's geography plays an important role with respect to its economic performance.”
• Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Within China (2007, unknown): “3 See table 3 in Démurger et al. (2002) for the timeline of policy initiatives.”
• The tradeoff between growth and equity in decentralization policy: China's experience ☆ (2008, unknown): “However, an even larger number of studies find a lack of convergence of per capita incomes across provinces (for example, Chen and Fleischer, 1996; Sun and Chai, 1998; Kanbur and Zhang, 1999; Shi, 2001; Dayal-Gulati and Husain, 2002; Demurger et al., 2002).”
• Political Incentives to Suppress Negative Information: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms (2015, unknown): “variable, MKT_DEREGi, is an index of market deregulation that measures the amount of preferential policies granted to a region by the central government (Demurger et al., 2002).”