Global competition and new technologies andproduction processes encourage a reorganization of economic activity amongbusinesses and localities. A public policy response to the consequences ofglobal competition is to create concentrations of innovation activity (regionalinnovation systems). The...

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...