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    Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2015
    China, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    As part of a national experiment in 2008, Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate migration restrictions. A triple difference approach using the Statistics Bureau’s regular household panel suggests that the reforms increased consumption and income, especially for less wealthy and less educated households, with estimated benefits well above the cost of implementation.

  2. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    China

    The Government of China has placed
    strong emphasis on addressing problems related to
    agriculture, farmers, and rural society, with the
    development of a "new socialist countryside"
    designated as a top priority for the Eleventh Five-Year Plan
    (2006-2010). The financing of public services in rural
    areas will be a key determinant of the Plan's success.
    This report analyzes the performance of the

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    China

    This overview summarizes the key
    findings of the eight chapters and one policy note. It is
    organized as follows. The first section provides a
    background of Guangdong, while the second describes the
    current situation of inequality in the province. Next is a
    discussion of the potential impacts of the transfer of
    industrial activities ('industrial transfer') in
    mitigating regional disparity, followed by the

  4. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    China

    This paper uses data from a large survey
    of Chinese firms to investigate whether local government
    efforts to facilitate market development improve firm
    efficiency. Both government provision of information about
    products, markets, and innovation and government assistance
    in arranging loans are positively associated with firm
    efficiency. Those private firms with weak access to and
    knowledge of financial, input, and product markets benefit

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    China

    This paper is motivated by the emphasis
    on secure property rights as a determinant of economic
    development in recent literature. The authors use village
    and household level information from about 800 villages
    throughout China to explore whether legal reform increased
    protection of land rights against unauthorized reallocation
    or expropriation with below-average compensation by the
    state. The analysis provides nation-wide evidence on a

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