Regional differences in mainland China after the 1970s economic reform

Regional Differences in Life Expectancy in Mainland China

China’s Central government is currently undertaking extensive pension reforms which requires accurate life expectancy forecasts at both national and regional levels. However, the lack of prior research in this area is an obstacle to policy formulation. The aim of this research is to investigate the trend of China’s regional differences in life expectancy. Three contributions of this thesis are ...

Economic System Reform in China

Regional Economic Differences in Iran Theory and Evidence

Increasing concern over the regional dimensions of national economic planning since 1970s, has constituted appropriate baselines for scientific analysis of regional differences The Iranian planning views in the pre and post revolution era have been examined in this article, based on both theoretical and applied study of regional differences. Then the types and degrees of convergency and/or dive...

Economic Reform in Cuba and China

Adrian Hearn Despite significant differences in economic and demographic scale, the governments of Cuba and China have confronted a comparable “dual” challenge as they open their economies to foreign investment. (UNCTAD, 2005; United Nations Population Information Network, 2005) The first part of this challenge has been to promote greater interdependence and collaboration between foreign multin...

Economic Reform, Growth and Convergence in China

In this paper, we propose a new concept of convergence which is based on the metric entropy measure recently proposed by Granger et al. (2004) to investigate economic convergence in China. This entropy measure compares whole distributions of growth rates across individual provinces. Separately, based on this same entropy measure, we also implement cluster analysis to identify any convergence cl...