Medals in transition: Explaining medal performance and inequality of Chinese provinces

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 158-172

  Jiang, Minghua ^a   Xu, Lixin Colin ^a,b  

^a Peking University   (China)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Inequality; Market; Medals; Plan; Sports; Transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844297825     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2004.12.002     Document Type: Article

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