Economic Development In Province Research Articles

The Impact of Public Housing Investments on the Economic Development of Provinces: The Case of Turkey (TOKI)

The Impact of Public Housing Investments on the Economic Development of Provinces: The Case of Turkey (TOKI)

Exploration of financial tax system in the context of big data

Abstract The financial tax system is related to the actual effectiveness of a country’s modernized economic development and has a close relationship with the country’s economic enhancement. To examine the causal effects between potential variables in the tax system, this paper constructs a measurement model of financial tax system variables using Bayesian structural equations. Parameter estimation for SEM is completed by adding prior information to the sample data and calculating the posterior distribution of relevant parameters using Bayes’ theorem. The correlation between financial taxation and economic development is calculated to indicate whether there is consistency in financial taxation on economic efficiency. Cronbach’s coefficient is used to measure the degree of consistency and stability of each part of the financial tax index system. The results show that the impact value of personal tax is 0.71, 0.37 and 4.18 in provinces C, A and B. Promoting economic development in provinces and municipalities with a better degree of economic development is aided by the current personal income tax sharing ratio. Reducing the proportion of indirect taxes while keeping the macro tax burden unchanged results in a gradual increase of the proportion of personal income tax in total tax revenue from 8.7% to 18.7%. The research in this paper further improves the financial tax system and provides an effective method to improve economic efficiency.

Does the Governorship Matter for Provincial Economic Development?

ABSTRACT Appointed provincial governors do not have any power to make new policies apart from the ones made by the central government, but they are legally responsible for their implementations. In addition, they are not appointed for a specific time period and can be rotated even within a year or can stay longer where they are assigned. However, governors are overtly or covertly influential on provincial development since they have the central government’s authority in the local administration. In this respect, using a new panel dataset, the current study seeks to find out if there is a relation between a governor’s length of tenure and provincial economic development. The empirical results of the study show a negative relationship between the length of tenure and the economic development of provinces. In addition, longer tenure years are related to lower economic development, while the too-short length of tenure has no significant impact on the economic development of the provinces.

Empirical Study on the relationship between freight volume and economic development of provinces and cities in China

The transportation industry is the basic and leading industry of the national economy, and it is an important pillar of the national economy. The freight transportation is an important part of the transportation and plays an important role in the economic development. At the same time, the development of freight transport itself is also affected by the economy. Therefore, this paper studies the relationship between cargo transportation and economic growth, and explores the internal relationship and law between them, so as to provide reference for the development of cargo transportation and the growth of national economy. This paper selects the freight volume and GDP indicators of 31 provinces and cities in China from 1993 to 2018, and discusses the development trend of GDP and freight volume from the perspective of provinces and cities. The results are as follows: 1. Freight volume and GDP showed an upward trend from 1993 to 2018, but the growth of freight volume was slower than that of GDP. 2. There is a co integration relationship between GDP and freight volume, and the national GDP increases by 0.954% for every 1% increase in freight turnover. 3. There are differences in the driving effect of freight volume in typical regions and provinces.

Mapping out a spectrum of the Chinese public\u2019s discrimination toward the LGBT community: results from a national survey

BackgroundChina has the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population. This study assessed the discrimination experienced by LGBT individuals in China in a comprehensive way, covering discrimination perpetrated by family, media, medical services, religious communities, schools, social services, and in the workplace.MethodsThe current study involved a national survey of 31 provinces and autonomous regions. Discrimination was measured both in terms of heterosexual participants’ attitudes towards LGBT individuals, and LGBT participants’ self-perceived discrimination. Pearson correlation analysis was performed to examine the difference between heterosexual participants’ attitudes towards LGBT individuals and LGBT participants’ self-perceived discrimination. Linear regression was used to investigate the association between gross domestic product per capita and discrimination.ResultsAmong 29,125 participants, 2066 (7.1%) identified as lesbian, 9491 (32.6%) as gay, 3441 (11.8%) as bisexual, 3195 (11.0%) as transgender, and 10,932 (37.5%) as heterosexual. Heterosexual people were generally friendly towards the LGBT community with a mean score of 21.9 (SD = 2.7, total scale score = 100) and the grand averaged score of self-perceived discrimination by LGBT participants was 49.9 (SD = 2.5). Self-perceived discrimination from family and social services is particularly severe. We created a series of provincial level choropleth maps showing heterosexual participants’ acceptance towards the LGBT community, and self-perceived discrimination reported by members of the LGBT community. We found that a higher level of economic development in provinces was associated with a decrease in discrimination, and we identified that every 100 thousand RMB increase in per capita GDP lead to a 6.4% decrease in discriminatory events perpetrated by heterosexuals.ConclusionsChinese LGBT groups consistently experience discrimination in various aspects of their daily lives. The prevalence of this discrimination is associated with the economic development of the province in which it occurs. In order to reduce discrimination, it is important for future studies to discover the underlying reasons for discrimination against LGBT individuals in China.

Why Are China’s Regional Economic Development in Provinces so Different?

Why Are China’s Regional Economic Development in Provinces so Different?

An exploratory discrete-time multilevel analysis of the effect of social support on the survival of elderly people in China

This study undertakes a survival analysis of elderly persons in China using Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey 2002–2008. Employing discrete-time multilevel models, we explored the effect of social support on the survival of elderly people in China. This study focuses on objective (living arrangements and received support) and subjective activities (perceived support) of social support, finding that the effect of different activities of social support on the survival of elderly people varies according to the availability of different support resources. Specifically, living with a spouse, financial independence, perceiving care support from any resource is associated with higher survival rates for elderly people. Separate analysis focusing on urban elderly and rural elderly revealed broadly similar results. There is a larger difference between those perceiving care support from family or social service and not perceiving care support in urban areas comparing to those in rural areas. Those who cannot pay medical expenses are the least likely to survive. The higher level of economic development in province has no significant effect on the survival of elderly people for the whole sample model and the elderly people in urban areas; however, there is a negative influence on the survival of the rural elderly people.

Differentiation of financial autonomy of Polish cities from the perspective of regional develop- ment / Zróżnicowanie samodzielności finansowej miast na prawach powiatu w aspekcie rozwoju regionalnego

The present paper raises the issues of financial autonomy of Polish cities with regard to the aspect of social and economic development of provinces, in which they are located – the topic being of crucial importance both from the theoretical and practical point of view. The significance of the undertaken research follows mainly from the fact that self-reliance and autonomy of a city in the area of financial management are indispensable conditions for its functioning. What potentially leads cities to harmonious and sustainable development is the fact that they possess legal personality, complete their tasks on their own account, manage their property and have their own, independent of the state finances, financial system. In spite of the fact that the goal of a city is not to make maximum profits but to satisfy collective public needs, the most important aim of local self-government authorities while making financial decisions should be to manage their financial resources in a rational way but, at the same time, to keep in mind the priority of the public interest.