When fiscal recentralisation meets urban reforms: Prefectural land finance and its association with access to housing in urban China

Urban Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1791-1809

  Fu, Qiang ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; fiscal institutional changes; housing tenure; land finance; urban reforms

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKET; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; FISCAL REFORM; HOMEOWNERSHIP; HOUSING; HOUSING MARKET; STATE ROLE; TENURE SYSTEM; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN POLICY; URBAN POLITICS;

CHINA;

EID: 84922687719     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098014552760     Document Type: Article

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