Dynamics, space, and regional inequality in provincial China: A case study of Guangdong province
Dynamics, space, and regional inequality in provincial China: A case study of Guangdong province
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DOI：
10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.05.003
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发表时间：
2012-11-01
影响因子：
4.9
通讯作者：
Wei, Yehua Dennis
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作者：
Liao, Felix H. F.;Wei, Yehua Dennis
本文采用多尺度、多机制的研究框架，考察了广东省1979 - 2009年的区域收入差距。我们发现，自21世纪初以来，广东省出现了新一轮的不平等加剧，这是由于珠三角核心地区与省内其他地区（周边地区）以及城乡之间的差距不断扩大。本文还运用分布动力学方法和空间马尔可夫链对广东省区域经济差异的时空动态进行了研究。研究结果表明，广东省的贫困陷阱倾向是渐进的，自我强化的集聚效应是明显的。运用多层次模型，进一步揭示了广东省区域不平等对多机制的核心-外围层次结构的敏感性，并揭示了分权化、市场化和全球化的相对影响。我们认为，广东减少不平等的政策受到地理障碍和珠三角自我强化集聚效应的限制，而市场化有潜力调节外资空间集中驱动的发展不平衡。(C)2012爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
This paper investigates the regional inequality in one of the most developed provinces in China, Guangdong, from 1979 to 2009 and follows the multi-scale and multi-mechanism framework. We have found a new round of intensifying inequality in Guangdong since the early 2000s, which is attributed to the widening gap between the core region of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) and the rest of the province (periphery) and between the urban and rural areas. The authors also apply a distribution dynamics approach and spatial Markov chains to identify the spatial-temporal dynamics of regional disparities in Guangdong. The results show that there has been a progressive bias toward a poverty trap in the province and the effect of self-reinforcing agglomeration is evident. Using a multi-level model, the study further unfolds that the regional inequality in Guangdong is sensitive to the core-periphery hierarchy of multi-mechanisms and reveals the relative influence of decentralization, marketization and globalization. We argue that the policies toward inequality-reducing in Guangdong have been constrained by the geographical barriers and the effect of self-reinforcing agglomeration in the PRD, while marketization has potential to mediate the uneven development driven by the spatial concentration of foreign investment. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.