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Local Public Goods Provision in the Post-Agricultural Tax Era in Rural China

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  • Hiroshi Sato
  • Sai Ding

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This paper investigates regional differences in local public goods provision in rural area in the 2000s, using large village sample surveys (CHIP 2002 and 2007 surveys, a survey in Ningxia). Focuses are on changes in the coverage of public investment projects, regional differences in the determinants of public investment projects, and changes in the coverage of public services provided by village collectives. The main findings are as follows. First, we confirmed that coverage of public investment projects had increased in the 2000s. Second, in spite of concentration of fiscal administration into county level as one of the pillars of the reform of taxation and local fiscal system, administrative villages still played indispensable roles in local public goods provision. Third, we found that incentive of peasants, financial ability of villages, and incentive of local government affect location decision and budget structure of public investment projects and that direction and strength of such factors were different by regions.

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  • Hiroshi Sato & Sai Ding, 2012. "Local Public Goods Provision in the Post-Agricultural Tax Era in Rural China," Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series gd11-222, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
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    Keywords

    Local Public goods; Village; Local Government; Rural China;
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    JEL classification:

    • H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
    • R5 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis

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