Governance and Finance: Availability of Community and Social Development Infrastructures in Rural China

Jing Wang and Bingqin Li

Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies from Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Abstract: This article studies the causes for unequal access to rural community and social development infrastructures in China. We use a dataset in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011–2012), the National Baseline Survey of Communities, to examine the availability of four types of infrastructures: public transportation, sanitation, health care and aged care. Three hundred and seven villages are included in this study. The findings suggest that the primary funder of infrastructures and the status of village governance have impacts on the unequal availability of rural infrastructures. The effects vary by the type of infrastructures under discussion. This is the first attempt to combine planning, finance and governance factors in explaining rural infrastructure availability. It has strong policy implications and shed important light on state–society relations and the urbanisation trends in China.

Keywords: community infrastructure; social development infrastructure; governance; finance; rural China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2018-01-14
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Published in Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, Jan 2018, pages 4-17

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