Abstract
Through the analysis of related literatures at home and abroad,we found that there is no uniform conclusion on the researches of regional economic disparities in Jiangsu province up to now.And quantitative comparison researches of its causes were rarely involved. Using gross domestic production per capita as a variable indicator to measure regional economic disparities and taking 67 cities and counties in Jiangsu province as geographic study units in this paper,we made a quantitative analysis of measuring the total level and the variety characteristics of regional economic disparities in Jiangsu with Gini coefficient and Theil index.Both methods show that regional economic disparities experienced the period of drop-rise-drop again-rise again process while the total regional economic discrepancy expanded significantly since the starting of economic reforms of 1978 in China.From the decomposition of Theil index,we found that overall regional disparities in Jiangsu province have shifted from rural-urban to intra-rural disparities.Meanwhile,the interregional inequalities among the southern Jiangsu(Sunan),the central Jiangsu(Suzhong) and the northern Jiangsu(Subei) were expanding. On this basis,we analyzed the factors of the formation and transformation of regional economic disparities in Jiangsu province,such as historical development foundation,economic geographic conditions,regional development strategy,industrial conversion capabilities,development of township enterprises,economic globalization and level of market maturity.Using regional separation index recently developed measures based on regional inequality decompositions,this paper makes a quantitative analysis of the agents of regional economic inequality and argues that the level of market maturity,industrial conversion capabilities and the regional development strategy are the main factors for the expanding of the regional economic disparities in Jiangsu province.
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