Changes in the source of China's regional inequality

China Economic Review

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 232-245

  Lee, Jongchul ^a  

^a Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Inequality decomposition; O18; O53; P20; Regional inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001517624     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1043-951X(00)00019-5     Document Type: Article

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