The incentive role of creating "cities" in China

China Economic Review

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 172-181

  Li, Lixing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Economic growth; Incentive mechanism; Regional competition; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951675739     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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