Fundamental causes of inland–coastal income inequality in post-reform China

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作者
Rui Hao
Zheng Wei
机构
[1] Central University of Finance and Economics,China Economics and Management Academy (CEMA)
[2] China-Africa Development Fund,Research and Development Department
[3] University of Birmingham,Department of Economics
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The Annals of Regional Science | 2010年 / 45卷
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This paper investigates the fundamental causes of the widening inland–coastal inequality in China during the post-reform period 1978–2004 within a systematic framework of economic development theory. We highlight the roles of three policy variables, namely globalization, decentralization and marketization, in determining the income gap between the inland and coastal regions. The results derived from both time-series and panel data provide strong evidence that these policies are thus far inequality-enhancing. This finding is robust to the use of different estimation methods, alternative proxies for policy variables and regional income, as well as the inclusion of other controls. We also find significant but economically small spillover effects from the coastal to inland provinces. Our results suggest that more efforts should be made to improve the policies to reduce regional inequality in China.
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页码:181 / 206
页数:25
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