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Urbanization’s effects on the urban-rural income gap in China: A meta-regression analysis [PDF]

open access: yesLand Use Policy, 2020
The considerable gap between urban and rural areas in China has been one of those social problems during the urbanization process. Since the early 2000s, an increasing number of theoretical and empirical studies have discussed the association between urbanization and urban-rural income gap (URIG) in China.
Mingshu Wang, Yuan Yuan
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Can Digital Inclusive Finance Narrow the Chinese Urban–Rural Income Gap? The Perspective of the Regional Urban–Rural Income Structure [PDF]

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
This paper empirically studies the impact of digital inclusive finance on the income structure of urban and rural residents in eastern, central, and western China. The results show that, first, digital inclusive finance is beneficial to narrowing the urban–rural per capita disposable income gap that has a disequilibrium effect among regions.
Yanzhe Wang
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Urbanization, inclusive finance and urban-rural income gap

Applied Economics Letters, 2021
By exploring the economic data in 31 Chinese provinces during 2006–2018, this paper discovers that: (1) inclusive finance narrows the urban-rural income gap mainly by improving financial quality; (...
Chaohua He, Hongyan Du
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Economic openness, financial bias, and the urban–rural income gap

Review of Development Economics, 2023
AbstractWe develop a theoretical model to analyze the impact of economic openness and financial bias (i.e., open sector bias and urban area bias) on the urban–rural income gap. Our theoretical model puts forth three propositions, which we empirically test using a dynamic panel data model.
Zuocheng Chen   +2 more
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Urban expansion and the urban–rural income gap: Empirical evidence from China [PDF]

open access: yesCities, 2022
Developing countries tend to exhibit evident urban–rural income divergence as urban areas rapidly expand into adjoining land. However, Western-centric urban theories and studies of spatial inequality have not paid sufficient attention to the connection between income divergence and urban expansion.
Mingshu Wang, Zhigang Chen
exaly   +2 more sources

The Urban-Rural Income Gap and Income Inequality in China

2008
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. According to most estimates, mean per capita income in urban China is more than triple that in rural areas, giving China one of the highest urban ...
Terry Sicular   +3 more
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