Institutional Analysis Of The Change In China's Regional Income Disparity

China's total GDP is keeping increased with the process of Reform and Opening. At the same time, the regional income disparity still exists and has tendency of enlarging. More and more scholars pay attention to China's regional income disparity, and draw some valuable conclusions with embarking on argumentation and analysis from various aspects. However, learning from previous scholars, we can find the deficiency: they usually attributed the reasons of regional economic growth and the disparity to certain factors such as investment, human resources and location etc, and regarded "institution"as exogenous variable when they analyzed the issues concretely. Hence it is inevitable that the conclusion lack of accuracy. Accordingly, the author attempted to analyze our country's regional income disparity with institutional analysis based on the theories of New Institutional Economics, and come to the conclusion that institution is the key cause of change tendency of regional disparity, and there is strong character of path-dependence in this process. There are four main parts in this treatise. In part â… , with Gini...