No Razor's Edge: Reexamining Alwyn Young's Evidence for Increasing Inter-Provincial Trade Barriers in China

No Razor’s Edge: Reexamining Alwyn Young’s Evidence for Increasing Inter-Provincial Trade Barriers in China

Alwyn Young (2000) provided evidence for distortions begetting distortions in a partially reformed economy by examining barriers to inter-provincial trade in China. His findings of increasing barriers to inter-provincial trade are based on five arguments. This paper critically examines each of the five arguments and their evidence in turn, and concludes that in all five instances neither argume...

Developing Inter-Provincial Electricity Trade

In this issue... Fundamental east-west synergies in electricity generation and transmission are waiting to be more fully exploited. Doing so would require provinces to rethink their electricity trading relationships with each other and with the United States.

Marriage squeeze and inter-provincial marriage in central China: Evidence from X County

Since the 1990s, inter-provincial female migration for marriage has become important in central and eastern rural China. Using survey data from X County in rural Anhui Province, we explore the arrangement of inter-provincial marriages, as well as the characteristics of husbands and wives, marital satisfaction and marital stability for these marriages. We find that inter-provincial marriage is a...

central-provincial relations for anti-schistosomiasis policy in china

this paper discusses central-local relations for healthcare policy in china from a principal-agent perspective, based on schistosomiasis control. in order to control the disease, the central government produced the outline of the mid-long-term national plan for schistosomiasis prevention and control (2004-2015) in 2004. by discussing the implementation of the national outline at the provincial ...

Environmental Regulations and Foreign Direct Investment Provincial Evidence from China