estimate economic activity at the sub-regional level in the U.S., India and China. The night lights based estimates of economic …

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 …

of the Western world. I use a new data set from archival sources of eighteenth-century China to revisit this question … costs, have overestimated these effects. I find the overall level of market integration in China was higher than previously …

This paper discusses regional development patterns in China, and examines effective ways of using development aid to …

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 …