Ravi Kanbur and Anthony J. Venables
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199278633
- eISBN:
- 9780191602191
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199278636.003.0010
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
Analyses the impact trade liberalization and economic integration have had on regional growth and regional disparities in Mexico over the last two decades. It is highlighted that the passage from an ...
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Analyses the impact trade liberalization and economic integration have had on regional growth and regional disparities in Mexico over the last two decades. It is highlighted that the passage from an import substitution system to membership of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) first, and to economic integration in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) later, has been associated with greater concentration of economic activity and territorial polarization. The analysis also shows that these changes herald a period of transition between two growth models. Regional growth in the final stages of the import substitution period was mainly characterized by convergence and linked to the presence of oil and raw materials and proximity to Mexico City. Economic liberalization and regional integration in NAFTA has been related to regional divergence, a reduction of the importance of Mexico City as the main market and to the emergence of an economic system in which the endowment of skilled labour starts to play a more important role.Less
Analyses the impact trade liberalization and economic integration have had on regional growth and regional disparities in Mexico over the last two decades. It is highlighted that the passage from an import substitution system to membership of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) first, and to economic integration in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) later, has been associated with greater concentration of economic activity and territorial polarization. The analysis also shows that these changes herald a period of transition between two growth models. Regional growth in the final stages of the import substitution period was mainly characterized by convergence and linked to the presence of oil and raw materials and proximity to Mexico City. Economic liberalization and regional integration in NAFTA has been related to regional divergence, a reduction of the importance of Mexico City as the main market and to the emergence of an economic system in which the endowment of skilled labour starts to play a more important role.
Zhicheng Liang
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199535194
- eISBN:
- 9780191715730
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199535194.003.0006
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
Deepening financial development and rapid economic growth in China have been accompanied by widening income disparity between the coastal and inland regions. This chapter examines the impacts of ...
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Deepening financial development and rapid economic growth in China have been accompanied by widening income disparity between the coastal and inland regions. This chapter examines the impacts of financial development on China's growth performance by employing panel data covering twenty-nine Chinese provinces over the period of 1990-2001 and applying the generalized method of moment (GMM) techniques. The empirical results show that financial development significantly promotes economic growth in coastal regions but not in the inland regions; the weak finance-growth nexus in inland provinces may help aggravate China's regional disparities.Less
Deepening financial development and rapid economic growth in China have been accompanied by widening income disparity between the coastal and inland regions. This chapter examines the impacts of financial development on China's growth performance by employing panel data covering twenty-nine Chinese provinces over the period of 1990-2001 and applying the generalized method of moment (GMM) techniques. The empirical results show that financial development significantly promotes economic growth in coastal regions but not in the inland regions; the weak finance-growth nexus in inland provinces may help aggravate China's regional disparities.
Rosario G. Manasan and Shiladitya Chatterjee
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195158984
- eISBN:
- 9780199869107
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195158989.003.0011
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
Attempts to evaluate the progress that has been made to date in reducing spatial inequality. More specifically, it aims to evaluate the pattern of regional economic development from 1975 to 2000, ...
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Attempts to evaluate the progress that has been made to date in reducing spatial inequality. More specifically, it aims to evaluate the pattern of regional economic development from 1975 to 2000, assess the gains, if any, in reducing regional disparities, and estimate the extent to which government policies have contributed to regional convergence. Employing convergence methodology, the study finds that there has been “alpha” convergence (a decline in overall regional inequality), and also often “beta” convergence (the poorer regions catching up to the richer ones), which is shown to correlate strongly with agricultural growth. Additionally, it draws attention to the key role of physical infrastructure in shaping regional outcomes, the country's experience with decentralization, and the vertical and horizontal fiscal imbalances among LGUs.Less
Attempts to evaluate the progress that has been made to date in reducing spatial inequality. More specifically, it aims to evaluate the pattern of regional economic development from 1975 to 2000, assess the gains, if any, in reducing regional disparities, and estimate the extent to which government policies have contributed to regional convergence. Employing convergence methodology, the study finds that there has been “alpha” convergence (a decline in overall regional inequality), and also often “beta” convergence (the poorer regions catching up to the richer ones), which is shown to correlate strongly with agricultural growth. Additionally, it draws attention to the key role of physical infrastructure in shaping regional outcomes, the country's experience with decentralization, and the vertical and horizontal fiscal imbalances among LGUs.
Isra Sarntisart
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- August 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199271412
- eISBN:
- 9780191601255
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199271410.003.0016
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This is the last of five country case studies on income inequality, and looks at the case of Thailand. Following on from a number of other studies, the study attempts to re‐examine the relationships ...
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This is the last of five country case studies on income inequality, and looks at the case of Thailand. Following on from a number of other studies, the study attempts to re‐examine the relationships between economic growth, structural change, and income inequality in Thailand. After an introduction, the second section, Economic Growth and Structural Change, provides a broad picture of the Thai economy, and the third, Trends in Income Inequality, reviews studies on the changes in income inequality from the 1960s through to the beginning of the 1990s. The fourth section, Factors Related to Income Distribution, examines industrialization planning, industrial protection policies, regional income disparities, and the minimum wage bill over the past four decades. The fifth section, Analysis of Income Inequality in 1988, 1992, and 1996, presents an analysis income inequality in those years according to the subgroups and source decompositions of income; the final section summarizes.Less
This is the last of five country case studies on income inequality, and looks at the case of Thailand. Following on from a number of other studies, the study attempts to re‐examine the relationships between economic growth, structural change, and income inequality in Thailand. After an introduction, the second section, Economic Growth and Structural Change, provides a broad picture of the Thai economy, and the third, Trends in Income Inequality, reviews studies on the changes in income inequality from the 1960s through to the beginning of the 1990s. The fourth section, Factors Related to Income Distribution, examines industrialization planning, industrial protection policies, regional income disparities, and the minimum wage bill over the past four decades. The fifth section, Analysis of Income Inequality in 1988, 1992, and 1996, presents an analysis income inequality in those years according to the subgroups and source decompositions of income; the final section summarizes.
Mario Polèse
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226673158
- eISBN:
- 9780226673172
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226673172.003.0004
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter explores the reasons behind regional disparity in wealth and why some nations have difficulty in overcoming this problem. Regional disparity can be viewed from different perspectives. A ...
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This chapter explores the reasons behind regional disparity in wealth and why some nations have difficulty in overcoming this problem. Regional disparity can be viewed from different perspectives. A region can be seen as being less prosperous because it allows for comparatively fewer activities or, alternatively, because its citizens are on average poorer than the citizens in the rest of the nation. First, to understand why, there is need to understand the mechanisms that caused regional inequalities to arise in the first place. What happens afterwards? Is there a predictable happy ending? Should we expect income disparities between central and peripheral places to widen or to lessen over time? The answer is not the same for all nations. The key issue revolves around the long-term effects of capital flows and, especially, of migration on the gap between poor and rich regions. National economic growth has over time led to greater regional income equality and, ironically, it has generated greater inequality.Less
This chapter explores the reasons behind regional disparity in wealth and why some nations have difficulty in overcoming this problem. Regional disparity can be viewed from different perspectives. A region can be seen as being less prosperous because it allows for comparatively fewer activities or, alternatively, because its citizens are on average poorer than the citizens in the rest of the nation. First, to understand why, there is need to understand the mechanisms that caused regional inequalities to arise in the first place. What happens afterwards? Is there a predictable happy ending? Should we expect income disparities between central and peripheral places to widen or to lessen over time? The answer is not the same for all nations. The key issue revolves around the long-term effects of capital flows and, especially, of migration on the gap between poor and rich regions. National economic growth has over time led to greater regional income equality and, ironically, it has generated greater inequality.
Ravi Kanbur and Anthony J. Venables
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199278633
- eISBN:
- 9780191602191
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199278636.003.0011
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
Models of economic geography predict that transportation costs directly affect demand for goods and the supply of intermediate inputs. One of the reasons that international trade is concentrated in ...
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Models of economic geography predict that transportation costs directly affect demand for goods and the supply of intermediate inputs. One of the reasons that international trade is concentrated in the coastal provinces of China is that they have lower transportation costs in transporting goods to other countries than do provinces in the interior. Examines the relationship between the provincial wage rate and each province’s access to international markets, and to suppliers of intermediate inputs. A gravity equation is first estimated to construct these ‘market access’ and ‘supplier access’ variables. In the second stage, the effect of market access and supplier access on the wage rate is estimated. It is found that about one-quarter of the provincial wage differences in the coastal provinces and 15% of the wage differences in the interior provinces can be explained by these economic geography variables.Less
Models of economic geography predict that transportation costs directly affect demand for goods and the supply of intermediate inputs. One of the reasons that international trade is concentrated in the coastal provinces of China is that they have lower transportation costs in transporting goods to other countries than do provinces in the interior. Examines the relationship between the provincial wage rate and each province’s access to international markets, and to suppliers of intermediate inputs. A gravity equation is first estimated to construct these ‘market access’ and ‘supplier access’ variables. In the second stage, the effect of market access and supplier access on the wage rate is estimated. It is found that about one-quarter of the provincial wage differences in the coastal provinces and 15% of the wage differences in the interior provinces can be explained by these economic geography variables.
Tony Atkinson, Bea Cantillon, Eric Marlier, and Brian Nolan
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199253494
- eISBN:
- 9780191595882
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199253498.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
Examines the fields of education, employment, and unemployment. It starts from the social indicators on low education, joblessness, long‐term unemployment and regional disparities proposed by the ...
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Examines the fields of education, employment, and unemployment. It starts from the social indicators on low education, joblessness, long‐term unemployment and regional disparities proposed by the European Commission. However, it goes beyond these, covering also differential access to education, employment activation, and the working poor and low pay.Less
Examines the fields of education, employment, and unemployment. It starts from the social indicators on low education, joblessness, long‐term unemployment and regional disparities proposed by the European Commission. However, it goes beyond these, covering also differential access to education, employment activation, and the working poor and low pay.
Jae Ho Chung
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231176200
- eISBN:
- 9780231540681
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231176200.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Suggests that whereas Beijing's policy support and centrally-induced horizontal networks were important in the early phases of the reform, the center's resource support and voluntarily-formed lateral ...
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Suggests that whereas Beijing's policy support and centrally-induced horizontal networks were important in the early phases of the reform, the center's resource support and voluntarily-formed lateral linkages have become increasingly crucial in recent years.Less
Suggests that whereas Beijing's policy support and centrally-induced horizontal networks were important in the early phases of the reform, the center's resource support and voluntarily-formed lateral linkages have become increasingly crucial in recent years.
Robert M. Townsend
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199533237
- eISBN:
- 9780191594892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533237.003.0004
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter spatially disaggregates the national economy into provinces, counties (amphoes), villages, households, and individuals. Provincial product displays great differences from high to low, in ...
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This chapter spatially disaggregates the national economy into provinces, counties (amphoes), villages, households, and individuals. Provincial product displays great differences from high to low, in poverty and in the fractions attributed to manufacturing and agriculture. Inequality in provincial income from manufacturing is much greater than inequality in non-farm income in household surveys. A simple model can explain much of the apparent difference. Projections establish the spatiotemporal patterns of income growth with initial concentration, then relatively dramatic convergence. Across-village inequality is high when the level of income is low within provinces. Household income change is hard to predict from macro/temporal shocks alone. Occupation, geography, and ground cover matter. More generally, households experience a variety of idiosyncratic and regional shocks. Households vary in diversification strategies, such as migration. Northeast Thailand, for example, differs dramatically after decades of growth from its Mekong basin counterparts in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.Less
This chapter spatially disaggregates the national economy into provinces, counties (amphoes), villages, households, and individuals. Provincial product displays great differences from high to low, in poverty and in the fractions attributed to manufacturing and agriculture. Inequality in provincial income from manufacturing is much greater than inequality in non-farm income in household surveys. A simple model can explain much of the apparent difference. Projections establish the spatiotemporal patterns of income growth with initial concentration, then relatively dramatic convergence. Across-village inequality is high when the level of income is low within provinces. Household income change is hard to predict from macro/temporal shocks alone. Occupation, geography, and ground cover matter. More generally, households experience a variety of idiosyncratic and regional shocks. Households vary in diversification strategies, such as migration. Northeast Thailand, for example, differs dramatically after decades of growth from its Mekong basin counterparts in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
Kai-yuen Tsui
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- December 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199678204
- eISBN:
- 9780191788635
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199678204.003.0085
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
This chapter examines the persistence of regional disparities in China. Empirical evidence on long-term regional convergence shows that the quest for redress in regional imbalances remains elusive. ...
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This chapter examines the persistence of regional disparities in China. Empirical evidence on long-term regional convergence shows that the quest for redress in regional imbalances remains elusive. The oscillation in regional inequality is linked to China’s evolving institutional landscape. Despite their raison d’être evaporating, the persistence of some pre-reform institutions such as the household registration system (Hukou) has continued to be in the spotlight, not least because of its alleged impact on interjurisdictional factors and resource mobility and thus regional convergence.Less
This chapter examines the persistence of regional disparities in China. Empirical evidence on long-term regional convergence shows that the quest for redress in regional imbalances remains elusive. The oscillation in regional inequality is linked to China’s evolving institutional landscape. Despite their raison d’être evaporating, the persistence of some pre-reform institutions such as the household registration system (Hukou) has continued to be in the spotlight, not least because of its alleged impact on interjurisdictional factors and resource mobility and thus regional convergence.
Hans-Joachim Bürkner
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198829911
- eISBN:
- 9780191868368
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198829911.003.0070
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter provides a stocktaking of the conceptualization of the spatial dimension of postcommunist social change. It traces the shifts in academic concepts which sought to grasp the effects of ...
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This chapter provides a stocktaking of the conceptualization of the spatial dimension of postcommunist social change. It traces the shifts in academic concepts which sought to grasp the effects of transition on the regional level and the diversification of regional trajectories. It identifies three distinct stages of transition research which represents such shifts. An initial phase of nation state-centred accounts of regional transition was followed by a period which highlighted the diversification of patterns of regional disparities, focusing on regional capitals and border regions, and establishing globalization as an important factor of new core–periphery relations and interregional competition. A final post-transition stage has been described as being dominated by socio-spatial polarization and the increasing vulnerability of regions in the face of neoliberal policies and recurring global economic crises. Formerly clear-cut concepts relating inequality to the legacies of earlier stages of transition have gradually vanished, leaving a theoretical gap.Less
This chapter provides a stocktaking of the conceptualization of the spatial dimension of postcommunist social change. It traces the shifts in academic concepts which sought to grasp the effects of transition on the regional level and the diversification of regional trajectories. It identifies three distinct stages of transition research which represents such shifts. An initial phase of nation state-centred accounts of regional transition was followed by a period which highlighted the diversification of patterns of regional disparities, focusing on regional capitals and border regions, and establishing globalization as an important factor of new core–periphery relations and interregional competition. A final post-transition stage has been described as being dominated by socio-spatial polarization and the increasing vulnerability of regions in the face of neoliberal policies and recurring global economic crises. Formerly clear-cut concepts relating inequality to the legacies of earlier stages of transition have gradually vanished, leaving a theoretical gap.
Jae Ho Chung
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231176200
- eISBN:
- 9780231540681
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231176200.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Despite the destabilizing potential of governing of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People’s Republic of China has held together for decades, ...
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Despite the destabilizing potential of governing of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People’s Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting efforts at local autonomy. By analyzing Beijing’s strategies for maintaining control even in the reformist post-Mao era, Centrifugal Empire reveals the unique thinking behind China’s approach to local governance, its historical roots, and its deflection of divergent interests. Centrifugal Empire examines the logic, mode, and instrument of local governance established by the People’s Republic, and then compares the current system to the practices of its dynastic predecessors. The result is an expansive portrait of Chinese leaders’ attitudes toward regional autonomy and local challenges, one concerned with territory-specific preoccupations and manifesting in constant searches for an optimal design of control. Jae Ho Chung reveals how current communist instruments of local governance echo imperial institutions, while exposing the Leninist regime’s savvy adaptation to contemporary issues and its need for more sophisticated inter-local networks to keep its unitary rule intact. He casts the challenges to China’s central–local relations as perennial, since the dilution of the system’s “socialist” or “Communist” character will only accentuate its fundamentally Chinese—or centrifugal—nature.Less
Despite the destabilizing potential of governing of a vast territory and a large multicultural population, the centralized government of the People’s Republic of China has held together for decades, resisting efforts at local autonomy. By analyzing Beijing’s strategies for maintaining control even in the reformist post-Mao era, Centrifugal Empire reveals the unique thinking behind China’s approach to local governance, its historical roots, and its deflection of divergent interests. Centrifugal Empire examines the logic, mode, and instrument of local governance established by the People’s Republic, and then compares the current system to the practices of its dynastic predecessors. The result is an expansive portrait of Chinese leaders’ attitudes toward regional autonomy and local challenges, one concerned with territory-specific preoccupations and manifesting in constant searches for an optimal design of control. Jae Ho Chung reveals how current communist instruments of local governance echo imperial institutions, while exposing the Leninist regime’s savvy adaptation to contemporary issues and its need for more sophisticated inter-local networks to keep its unitary rule intact. He casts the challenges to China’s central–local relations as perennial, since the dilution of the system’s “socialist” or “Communist” character will only accentuate its fundamentally Chinese—or centrifugal—nature.
Yang Yao
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226386799
- eISBN:
- 9780226386966
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226386966.003.0011
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia
The performance record of privatization in China varies from city to city. This chapter uses recent survey data to assess the disparities in regional performance, which is attributed to the different ...
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The performance record of privatization in China varies from city to city. This chapter uses recent survey data to assess the disparities in regional performance, which is attributed to the different degrees of local government commitment to privatization. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 10.1 presents a brief review of the Chinese government's policy toward privatization in the last twenty years. Section 10.2 shows the regional disparity in firm performance by presenting the econometric results on six cities. Section 10.3 constructs a theoretical model to explain the relationship between government commitment and post-privatization performance. Section 10.4 presents the government reform experience in Shunde, Guangdong province. Section 10.5 concludes with a discussion of the implications of the study. A commentary is also included at the end of the chapter.Less
The performance record of privatization in China varies from city to city. This chapter uses recent survey data to assess the disparities in regional performance, which is attributed to the different degrees of local government commitment to privatization. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 10.1 presents a brief review of the Chinese government's policy toward privatization in the last twenty years. Section 10.2 shows the regional disparity in firm performance by presenting the econometric results on six cities. Section 10.3 constructs a theoretical model to explain the relationship between government commitment and post-privatization performance. Section 10.4 presents the government reform experience in Shunde, Guangdong province. Section 10.5 concludes with a discussion of the implications of the study. A commentary is also included at the end of the chapter.
Deepak Nayyar
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198849513
- eISBN:
- 9780191883620
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198849513.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, South and East Asia, Development, Growth, and Environmental
Rapid economic growth in Asia was associated with an unequal distribution of its benefits among countries and between people. There was, in fact, a widening gap in per capita income levels within the ...
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Rapid economic growth in Asia was associated with an unequal distribution of its benefits among countries and between people. There was, in fact, a widening gap in per capita income levels within the Asian-14, while the gap between the richest and poorest countries in Asia was awesome. Much of the income inequality between countries in Asia was attributable to inequality between, rather than within, countries. Yet, there was also a significant increase in inequality between people within countries, just as there was a marked increase in inequality between regions within countries, both of which were more pronounced in countries that experienced rapid growth. Even so, rapid growth did lead to a substantial reduction in absolute poverty. However, the scale of absolute poverty that persists, despite unprecedented growth, is just as striking as the sharp reduction therein. The poverty reduction could have been much greater, were it not for the rising inequality.Less
Rapid economic growth in Asia was associated with an unequal distribution of its benefits among countries and between people. There was, in fact, a widening gap in per capita income levels within the Asian-14, while the gap between the richest and poorest countries in Asia was awesome. Much of the income inequality between countries in Asia was attributable to inequality between, rather than within, countries. Yet, there was also a significant increase in inequality between people within countries, just as there was a marked increase in inequality between regions within countries, both of which were more pronounced in countries that experienced rapid growth. Even so, rapid growth did lead to a substantial reduction in absolute poverty. However, the scale of absolute poverty that persists, despite unprecedented growth, is just as striking as the sharp reduction therein. The poverty reduction could have been much greater, were it not for the rising inequality.
Mario Polèse
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226673158
- eISBN:
- 9780226673172
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226673172.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter provides information about the regional origins of wealth and prosperity in the preindustrial period. Differences in place prosperity existed in all great preindustrial civilizations. ...
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This chapter provides information about the regional origins of wealth and prosperity in the preindustrial period. Differences in place prosperity existed in all great preindustrial civilizations. Some towns were larger and richer than others. Peasants, tradesmen, and aristocrats were richer in some areas than in others. Regional income disparities—between regions of the same nation—would also have seemed bizarre to most observers in preindustrial times. The modern nation state with its well-defined borders and shared sense of national destiny is recent invention. Historical evidence on development differences within nations in preindustrial times is understandably sparse. The little evidence that exists suggests that regional welfare differences were, as a rule, less acute than those found in many nations today. Income differences between social classes—between local aristocrats and peasants—were huge, of course; but those privileged few were in most places but a fraction of the total population, with the result that average incomes per person did not vary greatly between regions.Less
This chapter provides information about the regional origins of wealth and prosperity in the preindustrial period. Differences in place prosperity existed in all great preindustrial civilizations. Some towns were larger and richer than others. Peasants, tradesmen, and aristocrats were richer in some areas than in others. Regional income disparities—between regions of the same nation—would also have seemed bizarre to most observers in preindustrial times. The modern nation state with its well-defined borders and shared sense of national destiny is recent invention. Historical evidence on development differences within nations in preindustrial times is understandably sparse. The little evidence that exists suggests that regional welfare differences were, as a rule, less acute than those found in many nations today. Income differences between social classes—between local aristocrats and peasants—were huge, of course; but those privileged few were in most places but a fraction of the total population, with the result that average incomes per person did not vary greatly between regions.
Jae Ho Chung
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231176200
- eISBN:
- 9780231540681
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231176200.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Poses the question: “Why are Chinese leaders so preoccupied with local governance?” and outlines a framework of analysis.
Poses the question: “Why are Chinese leaders so preoccupied with local governance?” and outlines a framework of analysis.
Jae Ho Chung
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231176200
- eISBN:
- 9780231540681
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231176200.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Suggests that the People’s Republic’s principal mode of local control resembles that of the traditional China more than that of the pre-1949 revolutionary era in terms of preventive mechanisms, ...
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Suggests that the People’s Republic’s principal mode of local control resembles that of the traditional China more than that of the pre-1949 revolutionary era in terms of preventive mechanisms, investigative instruments and tools of suppression,Less
Suggests that the People’s Republic’s principal mode of local control resembles that of the traditional China more than that of the pre-1949 revolutionary era in terms of preventive mechanisms, investigative instruments and tools of suppression,
Jae Ho Chung
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231176200
- eISBN:
- 9780231540681
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231176200.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Presupposes that, with other things (i.e., patronage networks and societal demands) being similar among different regions, the level of local discretion permitted in implementation is likely to vary ...
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Presupposes that, with other things (i.e., patronage networks and societal demands) being similar among different regions, the level of local discretion permitted in implementation is likely to vary with different types of policy issues - i.e., policy scope, policy nature, and the degree of urgencyLess
Presupposes that, with other things (i.e., patronage networks and societal demands) being similar among different regions, the level of local discretion permitted in implementation is likely to vary with different types of policy issues - i.e., policy scope, policy nature, and the degree of urgency
Jae Ho Chung
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231176200
- eISBN:
- 9780231540681
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231176200.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Assesses the impact of post-Mao decentralization on central-local relations and concludes that the former has not necessarily or uniformly favored localities at the expense of central control.
Assesses the impact of post-Mao decentralization on central-local relations and concludes that the former has not necessarily or uniformly favored localities at the expense of central control.
Jae Ho Chung
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231176200
- eISBN:
- 9780231540681
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231176200.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Employs a triple concept of “agents,” “representatives,” and “principals” in illustrating the trajectory in which Chinese leaders' perception of local bureaucracy has evolved over time. It also looks ...
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Employs a triple concept of “agents,” “representatives,” and “principals” in illustrating the trajectory in which Chinese leaders' perception of local bureaucracy has evolved over time. It also looks into Beijing’s perceptions toward the provincial, the prefecture-level, the county-level, and township governments.Less
Employs a triple concept of “agents,” “representatives,” and “principals” in illustrating the trajectory in which Chinese leaders' perception of local bureaucracy has evolved over time. It also looks into Beijing’s perceptions toward the provincial, the prefecture-level, the county-level, and township governments.
