This paper compares China's labor productivity growth across different regions and industries, and investigates how the … from the firm level, the research yields overwhelming empirical evidence that during the period of 1995-2004 China has … patterns offer China a rare opportunity simultaneously to improve income inequality while maintaining a high overall growth …

The inter-provincial economic gap in China is obvious and tends to expand, although it is still unclear why this occurs … to show that China's inter-provincial labor productivity demonstrated significant growth convergence between 1997 and … productivity level in China's provinces widened significantly, which can be largely attributed to the combined effects of …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … policy to reduce regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …