Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off … since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities …-urban income differential has narrowed. Urbanisation also entails costs, however, notably in the form of congestion, all the more …