Can equalization of public services narrow the regional disparities in China? A spatial econometrics approach

Li, Bin; Li, Tuo; Yu, Miaojie; Chen, Bin

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2017.03.010

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“…The principle that characterizes the two future policies is the development of central villages besides the town center. Policy I underlines the balanced development of central villages and town centers (Li, Li, Yu, & Chen, ). In this development mode, central villages are identified according to their economic and locational conditions.…”

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Spatial optimization of rural settlement relocation by incorporating inter‐village social connections under future policy scenarios

Liu

Kong

Zhou

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Social connections between villages can represent farmers'interests and thus benefit participatory rural relocation planning. With rural development, however, these connections will change and may weaken the adaptation of relocation plans to future rural systems. As yet, most studies still use empirical social connections to guide relocation planning, while a few have incorporated predicted connections in the context of rural development into relocation decisions. Meanwhile, spatial optimization approaches have seldom been adopted to solve this geographical decision issue. Accordingly, our study proposes a novel spatial relocation framework that incorporates changed inter-village social connections under future rural development scenarios. Empirical inter-village connections and their policy-induced changes in central China were explored using social network analysis. An integration of particle swarm optimization and geographic information systems was adopted to identify the relocation solutions with maximum inter-village connections and maximum spatial land use compactness, and to examine how connection changes under different policy scenarios influenced relocation outcomes. The results demonstrate the significance of incorporating policy-induced social connections into relocation plans, and most importantly, show the negative relations between changed social connections | 689 LIU et aL.

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Spatial optimization of rural settlement relocation by incorporating inter‐village social connections under future policy scenarios

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“…When considering the input perspective, scholars often choose indicators such as per capita financial budget and per capita expenditures to measure the equalization of public services [35]. When considering the output perspective, scholars mostly use the entropy method to construct a comprehensive evaluation system based on multiple public service projects [36]. In this article, the definition of equalization adopts the equalization of basic public services in the State Council’s “Notice of the State Council on Printing and Distributing the 13th Five-Year Plan to Promote Equalization of Basic Public Services” [37].…”

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Does the Development of a High-Speed Railway Improve the Equalization of Medical and Health Services? Evidence from China

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Xue

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Does the development of a high-speed railway (HSR) have a significant impact on the equalization of medical and health resources allocated among cities? Based on the panel data of 67 cities in China from 2007 to 2016, this paper investigates the direct and dynamic effects of HSR development on the equalization of medical and health services by using the difference-in-differences (DID) method. The empirical results show that an HSR connection significantly reduces the equalization level of medical and health services in cities and that the effect is larger for the period from the year of the connection to the second year. However, in the long term, HSR development improves the equalization level of medical and health services in cities. Heterogeneity tests show that the effect of the HSR connection shows an “N”-shaped trend under different city scales, the equalization level of medical resources in the largest cities benefit the most from HSR development, and the Eastern and Western regions of China are more sensitive to the HSR connection. While the allocation of medical resources is in the direction of equalization, the level of medical resources is significantly more equal with the HSR development in cities with stronger financial capacity and non-core cities. The analysis of other city characteristics provides policy recommendations for improving the public services delivery mode in China’s heterogeneous cities in terms of HSR development.

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“…Whether or not the spatial weight matrix can be correctly set will significantly affect the reliability of the spatial econometric model. In previous research, scholars [42][43][44][45][46][47] often used the spatial distance or the spatial neighbor relationship to construct the spatial weight matrix. However, in fact, economic linkages between regions also have a significant impact on the spatial effect.…”

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“…This suggests that increasing cooperation and competition among local governments can strengthen the spatial relationship between regional economies. The failure to consider the spatial effect between regional economies certainly has a significant impact on the accuracy of empirical results [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52].…”

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The Effect of Local Government Debt on Regional Economic Growth in China: A Nonlinear Relationship Approach

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By drawing on the concept of sustainable economic development, this study advances the research on debt sustainability in the economic literature. We explore the correlation between local government debt and regional economic growth in 30 provinces in China. Previous studies have established that the development of economic growth between regions is not independent and we, therefore, investigate the spatial effect of regional economic growth due to the existence of a spatial spillover effect or spatial expansion among regions. Using Moran’s scatter plot, a Local Indicator of Spatial Association (LISA) map, and a semiparametric spatial model (SE-SDM), our results demonstrate the following: (1) the spatial agglomeration effect has a significant influence on regional economic growth; (2) the relationship between local government debt and regional economic growth presents nonlinear characteristics, rather than having an inverted U-shaped relationship; (3) the semiparametric spatial model more accurately characterizes in the nonlinear relationship between local government debt and regional economic growth compared to a basic regression model and the spatial Durbin model; and (4) when the scale of local government debt exceeds a certain level, economic growth will be suppressed by the crowding-out of private investment and the reduction of public expenditure.

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Can equalization of public services narrow the regional disparities in China? A spatial econometrics approach

Cited by 54 publications

References 28 publications

Spatial optimization of rural settlement relocation by incorporating inter‐village social connections under future policy scenarios

Spatial optimization of rural settlement relocation by incorporating inter‐village social connections under future policy scenarios

Does the Development of a High-Speed Railway Improve the Equalization of Medical and Health Services? Evidence from China

The Effect of Local Government Debt on Regional Economic Growth in China: A Nonlinear Relationship Approach

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