Urbanization and Urban-Rural Inequality in China: A New Perspective from the Government's Development Strategy

This paper offers a novel explanation for the lower urbanization rate and great urban-rural inequality in China. Our study reveals that, heavy-industry-oriented development strategy will result in lower urbanization rate and higher urban-rural inequality. The greater the degree of heavy-industry-ori...

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Main Authors:	Lin, Justin Yifu, Chen, Binkai
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics P250 Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity R120 Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration Regional Labor Markets Population Neighborhood Characteristics R230
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spelling	okr-10986-46992021-04-23T14:02:19Z Urbanization and Urban-Rural Inequality in China: A New Perspective from the Government's Development Strategy Lin, Justin Yifu Chen, Binkai Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions D310 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics P250 Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity R120 Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Regional Migration Regional Labor Markets Population Neighborhood Characteristics R230 This paper offers a novel explanation for the lower urbanization rate and great urban-rural inequality in China. Our study reveals that, heavy-industry-oriented development strategy will result in lower urbanization rate and higher urban-rural inequality. The greater the degree of heavy-industry-oriented development strategy is, the lower the urbanization rate is, and the higher the urban-rural inequality is. From a dynamic perspective, heavy-industry-oriented development strategy reduces the capital accumulation rate, which results in a slower progress of urbanization and a highly persistent urban-rural inequality. The higher the degree of heavy-industry-oriented development strategy, the slower the progress of urbanization, and the longer the urban-rural inequality will last. This mechanism can potentially explain the lower urbanization rate and higher urban-rural inequality in China under a unified framework. 2012-03-30T07:29:18Z 2012-03-30T07:29:18Z 2011 Journal Article Frontiers of Economics in China 16733444 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4699 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article China
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description	This paper offers a novel explanation for the lower urbanization rate and great urban-rural inequality in China. Our study reveals that, heavy-industry-oriented development strategy will result in lower urbanization rate and higher urban-rural inequality. The greater the degree of heavy-industry-oriented development strategy is, the lower the urbanization rate is, and the higher the urban-rural inequality is. From a dynamic perspective, heavy-industry-oriented development strategy reduces the capital accumulation rate, which results in a slower progress of urbanization and a highly persistent urban-rural inequality. The higher the degree of heavy-industry-oriented development strategy, the slower the progress of urbanization, and the longer the urban-rural inequality will last. This mechanism can potentially explain the lower urbanization rate and higher urban-rural inequality in China under a unified framework.
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title	Urbanization and Urban-Rural Inequality in China: A New Perspective from the Government's Development Strategy
title_short	Urbanization and Urban-Rural Inequality in China: A New Perspective from the Government's Development Strategy
title_full	Urbanization and Urban-Rural Inequality in China: A New Perspective from the Government's Development Strategy
title_fullStr	Urbanization and Urban-Rural Inequality in China: A New Perspective from the Government's Development Strategy
title_full_unstemmed	Urbanization and Urban-Rural Inequality in China: A New Perspective from the Government's Development Strategy
title_sort	urbanization and urban-rural inequality in china: a new perspective from the government's development strategy
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Urbanization and Urban-Rural Inequality in China: A New Perspective from the Government's Development Strategy

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