Research on the Convergence of Regional Economic Growth in China

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10.2991/icmess-17.2017.29How to use a DOI?

Keywords

econometrics; economic growth convergence; -convergence; -convergence; club convergence; quantile regression

Abstract

The study was designed to analyze the economic growth convergence from year 2008 to 2015 in 19 coastal and border provinces (districts) in China. To provide a more comprehensive and objective analysis on the economic growth, we collected real GDP per capita of 19 selected provinces in the 8 years, and utilized four distinct methods of econometrics, which are - Convergence, absolute -Convergence, club convergence and quantile regression. - Convergence was conducted in Gini coefficient method and Theil index methods. And we used SLM model and SEM model to explore the effect of spatial interaction in -Convergence. The results suggests that the economic growth of overall provinces shows the trend of - Convergence, and there exists absolute -Convergence in coastal and border provinces. However, there is no co-integration between the two regions. The study is of some importance in the state policy on economic growth.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiajin Bao
AU  - Jingzi Wang
AU  - Yingjun Mo
AU  - Chuangui Tong
AU  - Cheng Liu
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - Research on the Convergence of Regional Economic Growth in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Management, Education and Social Science (ICMESS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 120
EP  - 127
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmess-17.2017.29
DO  - 10.2991/icmess-17.2017.29
ID  - Bao2017/06
ER  -