nearby markets significantly promoted local growth in China since 1990. In particular, expansions of road infrastructure … potential measures. While we find that improved regional integration promoted local GDP growth in China, we find no significant …

. We next consider the ability of village-level elections in rural China to reduce rent seeking, and the extent to which …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … document significant increases of inequality within China’s urban and rural populations. In rural areas, increased inequality …

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …