Education and Regional Economic Development in China: The Case of Shanghai

Stephen Hills and Belton Fleisher ()

Comparative Economic Studies, 1997, vol. 39, issue 3-4, 25-52

Abstract: In thirty years, Shanghai's economy has shifted dramatically from agriculture to industry and, more recently, services. With less than 10 percent of the workforce in agriculture in 1990, a limit is rapidly approaching for a continuation to this historical pattern. Government policy has been supportive of rapid modernization and economic growth, but despite a high level of educational investment in the past, we find evidence of underinvestment at present. We show how underinvestment in education, the shift to a market economy, and the constraint of housing that is not yet privatized are strongly interrelated.

Date: 1997
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