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Benziger, Vincent William.

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Urban access and rural productivity growth in post-Mao China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Urban access and rural productivity growth in post-Mao China./
Author:	Benziger, Vincent William.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1992,
Description:	146 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-07, Section: A, page: 2476.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-07A.
Subject:	Agricultural economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9235519

Urban access and rural productivity growth in post-Mao China.
Benziger, Vincent William.

Urban access and rural productivity growth in post-Mao China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1992 - 146 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-07, Section: A, page: 2476.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1992.

The dissertation begins with a discussion of urbanization policies and trends in China since 1949, with special attention to the relations between cities and rural areas. The next chapter examines the theoretic literature on the nature of agglomeration economies (and diseconomies) and the spread and backwash effects which cities create. Particular emphasis is placed on the industrial-urban (IU) hypothesis of Theodore Schultz, which predicts higher levels of agricultural capital use and productivity on farms near cities. Given China's unique constraints on urbanization during 1957-79, the reform period is viewed as an experiment in which urban areas were once again allowed to function much more like natural, dynamic cities. Rural productivity, therefore, could be expected to respond to this new stimulus much in the manner predicted by the IU-hypothesis--i.e. more rapid growth near cities. The empirical part of my work examines the spatial differences in the rural productivity growth during the period of market-oriented reforms. Using county level data for Hebei Province in the 1980s collected while in China, I examine (with OLS-regressions) how the effective distance to urban markets (local, regional, and national) and the agglomerative strengths of those markets have affected factor ratios, specialization, and productivity growth. The econometric results are highly supportive of the hypothesis that rural growth is positively related to the strength of urban spread effects. The implications of these results include investment in rural education and infrastructure and the loosening of current restrictions on permanent migration out of backward areas.Subjects--Topical Terms:

3172150
Agricultural economics.

Urban access and rural productivity growth in post-Mao China.
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