Beyond GDP : welfare across China and time.

• Main Authors: Lin, Yumin., Wu, Pei Yun., Yap, Chai Teng.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51855
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper applies a comprehensive summary statistic of welfare measure for 336 prefectures in China, including Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai and Tianjin. Shanghai is used as the benchmark prefecture city for prefectural comparison in the level results. The methodology employed by this paper is the e...