Title: Investigations on Disparity in Farmers' Income in Different Provinces of China
Abstract: Disparity in farmers's income in different regions is of long standing. Since the reform and opening of our country, level of economic development and level of farmers'sincome in different provinces are becoming divided. The feature is: the number and proportion of high income provinces and low income provinces become enlarged while the number and proportion of medium income provinces become smaller; the provinces with rising income level are mainly located in industrially advanced region in the east while the provinces with the falling income level are mainly located in industrially backward region in the west. Because of the transmutation of rising and falling income, disparity in farmers' income in both industrially advanced and backward regions fluctuates. comparing the two, we find disparity in farmers' income in different provinces of industrially advanced region fluctuates more greatly, which shows that the degree of industrial development has decisive function on farmers' income. Therefore, the most fundamental measure to narrow the disparity in farmers' income in different regions is to speed up the process of urbanization in the west.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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