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Transfer-based decentralisation, economic growth and spatial inequality: Evidence from China's 2002-2003 tax sharing reform
文献类型：期刊
通讯作者：Li, M (reprint author), Univ Penn, Econ, 133 S 36th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.
期刊名称：URBAN STUDIES
年：2020
卷：57
期：4
页码：806-826
ISSN：0042-0980
关键词：economic growth; income inequality; local accountability; transfer-based decentralisation
摘要：China has adopted a transfer-based fiscal decentralisation scheme since the mid-1990s. In the 1994 tax sharing reform, the central government significantly raised its share of government revenue vis-a-vis local governments by taking most of the newly created value-added tax on manufacturing. One aim for the adoption of the transfer-based fiscal scheme was to channel more funds to less developed regions and rural areas, and to alleviate growing interregional inequality and urban-rural income disp ...More
China has adopted a transfer-based fiscal decentralisation scheme since the mid-1990s. In the 1994 tax sharing reform, the central government significantly raised its share of government revenue vis-a-vis local governments by taking most of the newly created value-added tax on manufacturing. One aim for the adoption of the transfer-based fiscal scheme was to channel more funds to less developed regions and rural areas, and to alleviate growing interregional inequality and urban-rural income disparity. In 2002 and 2003 the Chinese central government further grabbed 50% and 60%, respectively, of the income taxes previously assigned only to local governments while providing more fiscal transfers to the country's poor regions and the countryside. Utilising the 2002-2003 change in China's central-local tax sharing regime as an exogenous policy shock, we employ a Simulated Instrumental Variable approach to causally evaluate the effects of the policy shock on growth, interregional inequality and urban-rural disparity. We find the lower local tax share dis-incentivised local governments and led to lower growth. Although higher central transfers helped to reduce interregional inequalities in per capita GDP and per capita income, the equalising effects were only present for urban incomes. We argue that transfer-based decentralisation without bottom-up accountability was detrimental to economic growth and had limited impact on income redistribution. ...Hide

DOI：10.1177/0042098019856780
百度学术：Transfer-based decentralisation, economic growth and spatial inequality: Evidence from China's 2002-2003 tax sharing reform
语言：外文
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基金：National Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China [71533007]; National Social Science Foundation of China [413227047203]
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