Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform, and openness

The paper constructs and analyzes a long‐run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and...

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Autores principales: Kanbur, Ravi, Zhang, Xiaobo
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Wiley 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172312
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description The paper constructs and analyzes a long‐run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, and finally the period of openness and global integration in the late 1990s. Econometric analysis establishes that regional inequality is explained in the different phases by three key policy variables—the ratio of heavy industry to gross output value, the degree of decentralization, and the degree of openness.
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spelling CGSpace1723122025-02-19T14:07:08Z Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform, and openness Kanbur, Ravi Zhang, Xiaobo reforms economic situation decentralization industrialization The paper constructs and analyzes a long‐run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, and finally the period of openness and global integration in the late 1990s. Econometric analysis establishes that regional inequality is explained in the different phases by three key policy variables—the ratio of heavy industry to gross output value, the degree of decentralization, and the degree of openness. 2005-02 2025-01-29T12:59:45Z 2025-01-29T12:59:45Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172312 en Limited Access Wiley Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo. 2005. Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform, and openness. Review of Development Economics 9(1): 87-106. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9361.2005.00265.x
spellingShingle reforms
economic situation
decentralization
industrialization
Kanbur, Ravi
Zhang, Xiaobo
Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform, and openness
title Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform, and openness
title_full Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform, and openness
title_fullStr Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform, and openness
title_full_unstemmed Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform, and openness
title_short Fifty years of regional inequality in China: A journey through central planning, reform, and openness
title_sort fifty years of regional inequality in china a journey through central planning reform and openness
topic reforms
economic situation
decentralization
industrialization
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172312
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