Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: A Journey through Central Planning, Reform, and Openness

Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang

No RP2004-50, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper constructs and analyses a long-run time-series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, and finally the period of openness and global integration in the late 1990s.

Keywords: Central planning; Communist; Equality and inequality; Regional economics; Regression analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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