This paper depicts the trend of regional inequality in rural China for the period 1985-2002. The total inequality is … decomposed into the so-called within- and between-components when China is divided into three regional belts (east, central and …

Economic growth in China and India has attracted many headlines recently. As a result, the literature comparing the two … the regions of China and India over the past twenty years. It also provides an assessment of regional disparity in the two …

Concerns about the duration of China?s growth and hence the question of a permanent significant contribution of China … to world economic growth relate, amongst other things, to the problem of reducing regional disparity in China. While … China?s high average growth is driven by a small number of rapidly developing provinces, the majority of provinces have …

We use large survey data sets of firms provided by the World Bank for China, India, and Brazil?Investment Climate … find that capital cities in all countries are attractive for firms to locate. In India and China, labour-intensive firms … attrition costs. Labour regulations both in India and China deter firms from locating in the larger cities, but not in Brazil …