Regional Inequality in China: Trends, Explanations and Policy Responses

ISBN-13: 9780415775885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 258 str.

Shenggen Fan;Ravi Kanbur;Xiaobo Zhang

Opis

China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social compact and thus the political basis for economic growth. Chinese policy makers have realized the importance of the problem and have launched a series of investigations and policy initiatives to address the issues. The regional dimension of inequality—rural/urban and inland/coastal—dominates in a country as large as China, and especially with its particular history. Not surprisingly, regional inequality has come to loom large in the policy debate in China.

The policy debate has been informed by, and to some extent instigated by, a parallel analytical literature which has quantified the magnitude of the problem and identified recent trends, offered explanations based on rigorous analysis, and proposed policy interventions in light of the facts and understanding. Prominent in this literature have been a series of papers by Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang. These papers have been published in leading peer reviewed journals, and have had a policy impact. The object of this volume is to bring together a selection of papers by these authors, so that researchers and policy makers can have access to them in one place.

Spis treści

Part 1: Trends in Regional Inequality  2. Which Regional Inequality: Rural-Urban or Coast-Inland? An Application to China  3. What Difference Do Polarisation Measures Make? An Application to China  4. Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: A Journey Through Central Planning, Reform and Openness  5. The Emerging Urban Poverty and Inequality in China: Evidence from Household Survey  6. Spatial Inequality in Education and Health Care in China Part 2: Explanations and Policy Responses  7. Resource Abundance and Regional Development in China  8. How Does Globalization Affect Regional Inequality within a Developing Country? Evidence from China  9. China’s WTO Accession: Impacts on Regional Agricultural Income - A Multi-regional General Equilibrium Analysis  10. Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development in Rural China  11. Public Investment and Regional Inequality in Rural China  12. Reforms, Investment and Poverty in Rural China  13. Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China: Implications for Growth and Inequality  14. Social Entitlement Exchange and Balanced Economic Growth