"China has experienced a wide-scale and rapid transformation from an agricultural based economy to the manufacturing … shortages. The biggest challenge ahead will be for national and local governments to craft policies and rules within China …

"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the …/provinces in China and India. The United States, where regional inequality is the least, shows further convergence. Brazil, with …

entry matters more than access to the rest of China, which is consistent with market fragmentation due to underdeveloped …

data collected for this study through surveys. Beijing is the first choice for companies locating in China, but foreign …