China's Regional Economic Disparities Since 1978: Main Trends and Determinants

Tian Xiaowen

This study suggests that China should accelerate economic growth of its backward interior region by deepening market-oriented reforms on the one hand and by strengthening fiscal transfers from richer to poorer regions on the other.

publication year: 1999
48 pages
ISBN: 981-02-4168-2  Paperback  US$10.00  S$17.00
      
A joint imprint with World Scientific.
A title in the East Asian Institute Contemporary China Series.