Do Rural Land Markets Increase Inequality? Evidence from a Chinese Province

• 主要作者: Zhang, Qian Forrest
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• 主題: Agricultural and Resource Economics; Asian Studies
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/72; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1071/viewcontent/Land_inequality.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

Using a 2001 provincial survey, we find that disparities in land-rights distribution have greatly increased in rural China, and the growth of land markets is directly responsible for that. The land markets tend to concentrate land in those who can more efficiently use it. This translates disparities...