• DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9361.2005.00265.x
Corpus ID: 10375300

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

@inproceedings{Kanbur2005FiftyYO,
  title={Fifty Years of Regional Inequality in China: A Journey Through Central Planning, Reform, and Openness},
  author={R. Kanbur and X. Zhang},
  year={2005}
}

• R. Kanbur, X. Zhang
• Published 2005
• Economics

The paper constructs and analyzes 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. Econometric analysis establishes that regional inequality is explained in the different phases by three key policy… Expand

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