Trends, Causes and Policy Implications
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This paper depicts the trend of regional inequality in rural China for the period 19852002. The total inequality is decomposed into the so-called withinand betweencomponents when China is divided into three regional belts (east, central and west). A regression-based accounting framework is then used to explore root sources of the rising inequality. Policy implications are discussed.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007