Regional Disparities of Income, Environmental Quality and Medical Care in China : A Multidimensional Majorization Approach
Regional Disparities of Income, Environmental Quality and Medical Care in China : A Multidimensional Majorization Approach
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2013-07
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2.8
通讯作者：
Kazuyuki Nakamura
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作者：
Kazuyuki Nakamura
经济增长与其他社会福利指标之间的权衡有多严重？在本文中，我们研究了中国最近的极端经济增长是否在考虑收入、环境和医疗保健的情况下改善了社会福利。我们构建了一个基于多维多数化的分析框架，使我们能够基于多元属性来评估福利排序。从2006年到2010年，我们研究了中国城市统计数据中属性多元分布的福利排序。结果表明，2010年的社会幸福感较2006年有所改善。但是，除{2006,2010}以外的配对不能排名。特别是，我们发现污染排放是阻碍社会福利改善的瓶颈。另一方面，最近国内生产总值和医疗资源分布的变化有助于改善社会福祉。
How serious is the trade-off between economic growth and other social welfare indicators? In this paper, we investigate whether the recent extreme economic growth in China has improved social welfare when considering not only income but also the environment and medical care. We construct an analytical framework based on multidimensional majorization which allows us to evaluate welfare orderings based on multivariate attributes. For the period from 2006 to 2010, we investigate the welfare orderings of multivariate distributions of attributes compiled from city statistics in China. The result shows that social well-being in 2010 is better than 2006. However, pairs other than {2006, 2010} are not rankable. In particular, we find that pollution emissions are a bottleneck that hinders improving social welfare. On the other hand, recent changes in the distributions of GDP and of medical resources work toward improving social well-being.