Fiscal Expenditure and Income Gap between Urban and Rural Residents: An Empirical Study Based on Malmquist Index and Spatial Econometrics

• 作者: Fangfang ZHANG Jianhui LIU Ming ZHANG Zhibo ZHOU
• 来源期刊: 亚洲农业研究：英文版
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: FISCAL EXPENDITURE Rural-urban INCOME GAP DEA meth
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（2）
• 页码范围: 1-6
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: F812.45

摘要

Based on the analysis methods of non-parametric Malmquist index and spatial econometrics as well as the provincial panel data in 2007-2010, this paper estimates the efficiency of fiscal expenditure from local governments in china in terms of reducing the income gap between urban and rural residents for the first time and evaluates the spatial correlation and heterogeneity of this efficiency. The results have shown that the fiscal expenditure of most provinces is of low efficiency in reducing the income gap between urban and rural residents, and the expenditure efficiency of local governments is not relevant to their levels of economic development. Besides, the efficiency on reducing the urban-rural income gap between different regions of China has a tendency of convergence. But this is mainly reflected inside the regional economic belt. There is significant difference between the efficiency of each economic belt. The central region has the highest efficiency in a rising trend, the western region has the lowest efficiency in a downward trend, while the eastern region is relatively stable.