Investigation into China’s inter-provincial inequality in income per capita : the local solow growth model approach

• Main Authors: Xia, Chongwu, Liu, Tianjing
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development::China
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44248
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The persistent income inequality across China has led to the emergence of tremendous literature. However, most of the studies ignores the inherent heterogeneity that can yield different findings. Allowing provincial parameter heterogeneity, this paper employs local Solow Growth Model on China’s prov...