IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/pocoec/v12y2000i4p445-462.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Intersectoral Terms of Trade and Their Impact on Urbanisation in China

Author

Listed:
  • Li Zhang
  • Simon Zhao

Abstract

The historical experience of developed countries shows that the economic development process and accompanying urbanisation represent a structural transformation from an economy dominated by agriculture to one dominated by non-agricultural activities. Therefore it is generally believed that the agricultural sector needs to make a net transfer of resources, both capital and labour, to other sectors in the processes of economic transformation and urbanisation. However, the process of urbanisation in a socialist economy can be negatively affected by its pattern of resource generation. On the basis of an analysis of the 'scissors' pricing mechanism to which the state had recourse for financing its industrialisation, this article argues that this kind of resource transfer did not necessarily favour a high rate of urban employment and urbanisation, regardless of the magnitude of the seizure of resources from the agricultural sector.

Suggested Citation

  • Li Zhang & Simon Zhao, 2000. "The Intersectoral Terms of Trade and Their Impact on Urbanisation in China," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(4), pages 445-462.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pocoec:v:12:y:2000:i:4:p:445-462
    DOI: 10.1080/14631370050216506
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14631370050216506
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/14631370050216506?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Richard Kirkby & Zhao Xiaobin, 1999. "Sectoral and Structural Considerations in China's Rural Development," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 90(3), pages 272-284, August.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Wu, Haitao & Hao, Yu & Weng, Jia-Hsi, 2019. "How does energy consumption affect China's urbanization? New evidence from dynamic threshold panel models," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 127(C), pages 24-38.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rigg, Jonathan, 2006. "Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 34(1), pages 180-202, January.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:pocoec:v:12:y:2000:i:4:p:445-462. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/CPCE20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.