Fifteen years of efforts to promote fiscal decentralization in China have failed to promote economic growth in China's provinces. This finding is surprising in the light of arguments that fiscal decentralization usually promotes provincial or local economic growth.Zhang and Zou use data on China...

Nowhere has the scale and scope of urbanization been larger than in China over the last few decades. We analyze Chinese city development over the past 20 years, using data for the urbanized components of prefecture-level cities. We show that, despite much variability and fast economic and...