Externalities in Rural Development : Evidence for China
The author tests for external effects of local economic activity on consumption and income growth at the farm-household level using panel data from four provinces of post-reform rural China. The tests allow for non-stationary fixed effects in the c...
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Language: | English en_US |
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2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/08/1997764/externalities-rural-development-evidence-china http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19268 |
Summary: | The author tests for external effects of
local economic activity on consumption and income growth at
the farm-household level using panel data from four
provinces of post-reform rural China. The tests allow for
non-stationary fixed effects in the consumption growth
process. Evidence is found of geographic externalities,
stemming from spillover effects of the level and composition
of local economic activity and private returns to local
human and physical infrastructure endowments. The results
suggest an explanation for rural underdevelopment arising
from under-investment in certain externality-generating
activities, of which agricultural development emerges as the
most important. |
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