Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996-99. Their...

Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996?99. Their...

This study investigates spatial dependence and mechanisms of regional development in Greater Beijing, China by employing spatial statistical techniques.We have detected positive, strengthening global spatial auto-correlation from 1978 to 2001, and found such strengthening is the result of newly...