The literature on income disparities across China’s provinces suggests that there has been (absolute) divergence in per capita incomes since 1978, a trend which has accelerated since the early 1990s. We contribute to this literature by updating the convergence analyses to include the most recent period (1994-2003). Four methods (beta and sigma convergence, Markov chain and kernel density analys...

JEL Bibliographic Code O15, O18, O47, O53 We postulate that inferior factor productivity in China’s noncoastal provinces is a principal reason for their lower economic growth despite high investment rates relative to coastal provinces. Using the residual from a fixed-effect Solow growth model for the years 1978-93, we find that TFP is roughly twice as high in the coastal provinces. We estimate ...

The paper discusses China's post-reform regional economic growth imbalance relative to input disparity in technology, physical and human capital. Financial sources and types of ownership are used to construct physical capital. Technology is measured by innovation investment, and human capital is constructed from schooling years per capita. The results show that domestic bank loans and foreign-o...

In this paper, we estimate Okun’s coefficients for ten Canadian provinces using real GDP and unemployment rate data across the provinces. We obtain an average estimated Okun’s coefficient of –1.58 under the Hodrick-Prescott detrending method and –1.32 under the quadratic detrending method. There is relative stability of the coefficients across the two detrending methods. Generally, the cost of ...

introduction alveolar echinococcosis (ae) is a chronic, serious and sometimes lethal parasitic infection, which is caused by echinococcus multilocularis (em). ae has been reported to occur in people from the north of iran; however, until now there have been no cases of ae reportedfrom the southern provinces, such as khuzestan. conclusions there were three female patients, 21, 47 and 53 year-old...

Contents of inorganic elements are very important traits in plants. Some of elements have causal effects on plant growth. Their effects on plant metabolism and therefore quality and quantity of essential oils is crucial. Thus, to obtain relatively good results, different parts of Rosa damascena Mill. genotypes were analyzed. Plants were collected from different provinces including Tehran, East ...