The Trend of Regional Income Disparity in the People’s Republic of China
Li, Shantong; Xu, Zhaoyuan | January 2008
Abstract
Based on recent updated statistical data that has become available since the People’s Republic of China (PRC) implemented its first national economic census in 2004, this paper studies the trend of regional disparity both among and within the provinces of the PRC from 1978 to 2005. We find that compared with the 1990s, the expansive trend of inter-provincial disparities has slowed down and started to decrease somewhat since 2000. In 2004 and 2005, some statistical indicators, such as per capita GDP and per capita household consumption at current prices, show that regional disparities have declined to a certain extent. In addition to the great disparity among provinces, disparities within provinces are also very common in the PRC. Judged by some measurement indexes, income disparities within many provinces have even exceeded inter-provincial disparities. The results of decomposing the regional disparity into within-group and between-group components suggested that the urban-rural disparities are the main source of regional disparities. The results further suggested that disparities among the PRC’s four regions, especially between the eastern region and the other regions, are mainly to blame for interprovincial disparities. Finally, this paper finds that changes in regional disparities in recent years can be attributed to many factors, including policies and regional specific factors as well as some cyclical factors. For this reason, we still cannot claim that the PRC’s regional disparities have started a decline that will continue.
Citation
Li, Shantong; Xu, Zhaoyuan. 2008. The Trend of Regional Income Disparity in the People’s Republic of China. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3673. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Alleviating Poverty
Anti-Poverty
Extreme Poverty
Fight Against Poverty
Global Poverty
Health Aspects Of Poverty
Indicators Of Poverty
Participatory Poverty Assessment
Poverty Eradication
Poverty Analysis
Poverty In Developing Countries
Poverty Reduction Efforts
Urban Poverty
Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
Project Evaluation & Review Technique
Performance Evaluation
Impact Evaluation Reports
Evaluation Criteria
Development Indicators
Environmental Indicators
Economic Indicators
Educational Indicators
Demographic Indicators
Health Indicators
Disadvantaged Groups
Low Income Groups
Socially Disadvantaged Children
Rural Conditions
Rural Development
Social Conditions
Urban Development
Urban Sociology
Project finance
Resources evaluation
Needs assessment
Cost benefit analysis
Poor
Economic forecasting
Health expectancy
Social groups
Political participation
Distribution of income
Inequality of income
Developing countries
Rural community development
Mass society
Social change
Social policy
Social stability
Population
Sustainable development
Peasantry
Urban policy
Urban renewal
Results mapping
Risk assessment
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
Cost effectiveness
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