@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007867,
 author = {WU, Haiying},
 issue = {3},
 journal = {経済科学},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {This paper studies regional disparity and its trend by dividing China into four regions : East, Central, West and Northeast. The result shows that income disparity of households within-the-region is experiencing convergence while the inter-region disparity is diverging. In modern China, income disparity mainly stems from inter-regional differentiation. Hence the widening of overall income disparity is therefore the consequence of the enlargement of such differences. This trend becomes more distinct despite the commencement of the West Development Strategy which began in 2000. At the same time, income disparity for urban households within different provinces in the West has fallen though not for rural households which have witnessed a slight increase. By inquiring about the factors causing the disparity, we found that both economic and non-economic factors have an influence. We predict that in the long term, income disparity between the East and the West will continue on an upward trend.},
 pages = {49--67},
 title = {The West Development Strategy and Regional Disparity in China},
 volume = {55},
 year = {2007}
}