Suburbanization of Urban China: A Conceptual Framework*

In 1981 this standard deviation computed for the 28 provinces then in existence was 0.2612, as compared with 0.3475 in 1998 for the same 28 provinces (See Chow (2002, p. 169)). Thus consumption inequality among provinces increased between these two years, at the average rate of (0.3475-0.2612)/17 = 0.00508 or about half of a percentage point per year. ................
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