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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254872403321

Autore

Chen Zhao

Titolo

Toward Balanced Growth with Economic Agglomeration : Empirical Studies of China's Urban-Rural and Interregional Development / / by Zhao Chen, Ming Lu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-662-47412-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (142 p.)

Disciplina

330

330.12

338.9

Soggetti

Economic growth

Economic policy

Economics

Economic Growth

Political Economy/Economic Systems

Economic Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.