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Qi** Li
Development Economics
Regional/Spatial Science
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The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China
The evidence presented in this volume indicates that the distribution of income in China is less unequal than in many develo** countries. The Gini coefficient in 1988 was 0.34 in rural areas and 0.23 in urba...
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China: A Giant with an Achilles Heel?
Since the financial turmoil broke in Thailand in July 1997, triggering a financial crisis across South East Asia, China, the only major country isolated from the financial crisis in East Asia, has remained the...
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The Urban-Rural Income Gap and Income Inequality in China
Studies of China’s inequality almost universally report that the gap between urban and rural household incomes in China is large, has increased over time, and contributes substantially to overall inequality. A...
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Income, Income Inequality and Health: Evidence from China
China has recorded impressive growth over the past 25 years since the introduction of the market economy, and there has been a substantial increase in average living standards. However, in recent years there h...
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Regional Competition, Fiscal Federalism, and Economic Structure: Evidence from China
Fiscal decentralization is an important element that fostered the success of China’s reforms towards a market economy. If economics is all about incentives, then understanding how fiscal reforms provided incen...
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Human Capital and Technological Spillovers from FDI in the Chinese Regions: A Threshold Approach
Openness is a well-known factor that facilitates the development of a country. Investment from developed to less developed countries are the major channel for realizing this process. Besides the direct effects...
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Component Trade and China’s Global Economic Integration
A symbol of China’s economic integration into the global economy is its progressive engagement in international commodity trade, with an increasing scale and intensity. From 1992 to 2005, the average growth ra...
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The Changing Geography of Innovation Activities: What do Patents Indicators Imply?
Innovation in the global marketplace is at the core of the twenty-first century knowledge-based economy (Schumpeter, 1980: 66). Innovation is in itself a fuzzy concept and measuring it is more difficult (Godin...
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Political Competition at a Multilayer Hierarchy: Evidence from China
The most salient feature of China’s economic development in the past three decades is the remarkably high and sustained level of economic growth: China’s real GDP growth rate was on average 9.6 per cent during...
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Adjusting to Really Big Changes: The Labor Market in China, 1989–2009
Until China began its post-Mao economic reforms, the country did not have a genuine labor market. State-owned enterprises were the only source of demand for labor. Administrative agencies assigned workers to f...
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Choose Countries for HGDI Measurement
In the report, we conducted the HGDI measurement for 123 countries. In the choice of countries, we mainly considered two elements: firstly, the data integrity. All candidate countries should have relatively co...
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Five Suggestions for SDGs—Inspirations from HGDI Measurement
Through the study on the evolution from the MDGs to the SDGs and based on the careful analysis for the worrisome downward trend of earthly environment, we came up with the HGDI and measured and studied the gre...
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HGDI Compilation Principles
HGDI compilation principles mainly include:
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Regional Migration and Structural Change in the Labor Market
Inter-regional labor migration in China has been increasing since the beginning of the 1990s and reached 147 million people by 2005. Its share of the total population was about 10 percent. Until now, labor tra...
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Results and Analysis of HGDI Measurements
Based on the HGDI indicator system, we measured and obtained the HGDI values of the 123 countries and their rankings accordingly. See specific information in Table 6.1.
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Extreme Poverty Indicator: Proportion of Population Below Minimum Level of Dietary Energy Consumption
Poverty reduction is a global problem confronting all countries in the world. Due to such severe challenges to the world economic development as resources and environment pressure and reduced biological divers...
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Theoretical Rationale Behind HGDI
The theoretical rationale behind the HGDI will be elaborated via a comparison with Amartya Sen’s theory.
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Choosing HGDI Indicators and Constructing Indicator System
The human green development can be reflected through many kinds of indicators such as welfare indicators, green economy indicators, and environment, resources and ecology indicators, involving more than 20 ind...
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Approaches to Measure HGDI
To ensure the comparability of each country in green development level, all HGDI indicators we adopt are relative indicators, which can be divided into two specific categories. One is intensity indicator which...
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Forest Indicator: Forest Area (% of Land Area)
For quite a long time, man has been exploiting natural resources without restraint, and forest felling in particular, has brought about a series of problems for the global ecosystem, such as serious soil erosi...
