Zhao Chen, Ming Lu

Toward Balanced Growth with Economic Agglomeration

Empirical Studies of China's Urban-Rural and Interregional Development

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explains the relationships between equality and efficiency, as well as between government and market, in urban-rural and regional development by providing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence. Urban-rural development in China is understood from a regional perspective, while the core issue of urban-rural and regional development is cross-regional resource reallocation driven by the trends of globalization, marketization and urbanization and their influence on growth and inequality. The book puts forward the following arguments: An urban-rural and regional balance should not be achieved by limiting agglomeration effects in eastern regions. For some time now, China has lacked a suitable mechanism to enable residents in underdeveloped and rural areas to share in the achievements of economic agglomeration. As a result, China should not slow down economic agglomeration and development in eastern regions simply by depending on administrative means to balance urban-rural and regional development. In the final analysis, arriving at a regional balance depends on growth in the eastern regions, provided a reasonable mechanism is implemented to enable inland areas to share in the development achievements of eastern regions. In turn, finding an urban-regional balance rests on urban development, as long as more rural workers can move to and prosper in cities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peking University Press / Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-662-51675-1
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 267mm x 155mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 241g
• ISBN-13: 9783662516751
• ISBN-10: 3662516756
• Artikelnr.: 46427644

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Urban-rural integration and spatial agglomeration during urbanization in China.- How should China maintain growth while balancing regional development.- Globalization and Regional Income Inequality in China.- Economic Opening and Domestic Market Integration.- Urban-rural Inequality and regional economic growth in China.