Using newly available spatial price deflators, this paper shows that inequality evaluations in the literature overstate the magnitude of inequality and inequality changes in China, as well as the role played by regional differences in the observed inequality rise duringthe 1990s.

This paper analyzes the impact of market liberalization on gender earnings differentials and discrimination against women in urban China at the beginning of the 90s. The observed stability in the overall gender earnings gap between 1988 and 1995 is shown to result from a complex set of...

This paper systematises the method initiated by Burtless (1999) and provides a general framework for decomposing inequality by factor components, which has the double advantage over usual decomposition procedures to allow for a decomposition of income distribution changes and to distinguish...

Cet article propose une evaluation de la croissance de la productivite globale des facteurs (PGF) dans l'industrie manufacturiere chinoise et examine l'impact de l'investissement direct etranger sur ces performances pour un echantillon de vingt-neuf provinces entre 1988 et 1994. La disponibilite...

During the last decades, China has achieved some remarkable results in improving the health status of its population. Since the end of the seventies, it has engaged in a process of large reforms in integrating with the global economy. This openness in policy has already paid important dividends...

This paper measures the evolution of total factor productivity (TFP) and its components in Chinese provinces for the period of 1992-99. It shows that during this period, TFP, efficiency and technology have progressed on average 3.9%, 1.6% and 2.3% annually, respectively. Then it evaluates 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...

The paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth. A model of endogenous growth first highlights the transfer of foreign technology as a key determinant of economic growth, and suggests that economic growth may conversely influence the inflows of...

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