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Opening up, Market Reforms, and Convergence Clubs in China

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  • Rui Hao

    (CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - UdA - Université d'Auvergne - Clermont-Ferrand I - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

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This paper evaluates the relationship between initial government policies and the emergence of convergence clubs in post-reform China. We test the structural stability of a global convergence equation using China's provincial data over the period 1985-2000. We find that the provinces cluster around two basins of attraction defined by initial opening-up. Domestic market reform exerts a positive and significant influence on provincial economic growth but have no threshold effect. The two convergence clubs exhibit strikingly different growth behaviors, suggesting that the roles of some growth-promoting factors such as human capital and infrastructure depend on whether an openness threshold is passed.

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  • Rui Hao, 2008. "Opening up, Market Reforms, and Convergence Clubs in China," Post-Print hal-00284982, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00284982
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