Public investment and regional inequality in rural China
提出一种分解各类公共投资对区域不平等贡献的方法，并应用于中国农村。研究发现，公共投资促进了农业和农村非农业部门的生产增长，但对区域不平等的影响因投资类型和地区而异。
Abstract This paper develops a method for decomposing the contributions of various types of public investment to regional inequality and applies the method to rural China. Public investments are found to have contributed to production growth in both the agricultural and rural non‐agricultural sectors, but their contributions to regional inequality have differed by type of investment and the region in which they are made. All types of investment in the least‐developed western region reduce regional inequality, whereas additional investments in the coastal and central regions worsen regional inequality. Investments in rural education and agricultural R&D in the western region have the largest and most favorable impacts on reducing regional inequality.