Guanghua Wan
Biographic Data
| ID | 272590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guanghua Wan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guanghua |
| FAMILY NAME | Wan |
| SIGNATURE | WAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fudan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3669-369X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Education development and income inequality
Sino-US Competition for Political Influence in Africa
Income inequality effect of public utility infrastructure
Inequality and the middle‐income trap
This paper proposes an indicator measuring the likelihood for an economy to escape the middle income trap (MIT) and then estimates the impact of income inequality on this indicator using 1960‐2019 cross‐country data. Major findings include the following: (1) The likelihood of escaping MIT is relatively large for Asia, followed by Europe, Africa, North America and South America. (2) Inequality is negatively and significantly correlated with the MI…
The Welfare Effects of Land Reform
Land reform has been perceived to be a major avenue for poverty reduction, amid controversies regarding the impacts of land reform in developing economies. This paper demonstrates how China’s land reform in the 1950s succeeded in reducing hunger and poverty. To be more specific, our paper constructs a theoretical model, deriving hypotheses with respect to the welfare effects of land reform in general. The hypotheses are then empirically tested us…
The income inequality-CO2 emissions nexus
Does health aid reduce infant mortality? Cross-country evidence
Does health aid help reduce infant mortality? Despite a growing literature, existing findings have no consensus. To investigate the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, this paper applies polynomial inverse lag (PIL) framework to panel data from 131 countries over the period 2002–2019, and focuses on the instant and long-term impacts of health aid on infant mortality. The results indicate that health aid can effectively reduce in…
Introduction to open economy and globalization
China's poverty reduction miracle and relative poverty
The impact of political relations on international trade
In May 2012, with tensions over Huangyan Island taking an increasingly sour turn, China released a document to strengthen inspection and quarantine of fruits imported from the Philippines. To many, this retaliation implied that the former launched economic sanctions against the latter over the growing conflict. As such, this paper takes that tension as a quasi‐natural experiment to examine the impact of deteriorating political relations on trade.…
The Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle
Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia
Reetu's principal areas of
Investing for urban-rural migration
Neither clear theoretical interpretation nor empirical validation of public educational investment to urban-rural migration or urbanization exists comprehensively. This paper comprehensively analyzes the relationship between public educational investment and urban-rural migration to fill in this niche. We first discuss the theoretical effect of public educational investment and urban-rural migration. Although public educational investment results…
The Chinese economy
Poverty and inequallity in Asia
This paper aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and individual economies. Efforts are made to explain these trends and explore the interrelationship between growth, poverty, and inequality in Asia. Analytical results confirm significant reductions in poverty across the board due to fast growth, although the benign effect of growth on poverty was offset by worsening distribution in many e…
Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics
Building on his three decades of careful research, Professor Kam Wing Chan expertly dissects the complexity of China's hukou system, migration, urbanization and their interrelationships in this set of journal articles published in the last ten years. This book examines several fundamental issues in China's migration and urbanization: the definitions of and statistics about cities and migration, the hukou system, the rural migrant workers, and the…
Overview on ‘escaping the middle-income trap’
The ‘middle-income trap’ has become a popular theme in the literature and among policy-makers, even though a precise definition of it and empirical evidence for it are hard to pin down.1 The argume
The size distribution and growth pattern of cities in China, 1982–2010
China's urbanization in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is a crucial process in transforming the country. Taking advantage of the de facto counts of city population in the last four censuses since 1982, this paper examines the city-size distribution and growth pattern of large cities in China in recent three decades. Combined with earlier data and work on the Mao era, the paper also presents some long-term trends and helps ans…
Why Asia and China have lower urban concentration and urban primacy
Asia is densely populated and home to most of the world's megacities. However, its urban primacy and urban concentration, especially those of developing Asia, are much lower than their counterparts in the rest of the world. This is an important puzzle that has not been addressed in the literature. Motivated by a theory of Krugman and Livas Elizondo, this paper attributes the lower urban concentration and urban primacy to higher levels of trade op…
Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentall
A ZEN approach to post-2015 development goals for Asia and the Pacific
IDE en Chine
Cet article étudie les impacts des IDE sur le développement financier en Chine. L’étude empirique, basée sur des données de panel au niveau provincial entre 1987 et 2004, montre que les IDE stimulent les prêts des quatre grandes banques d’état mais n’a aucun effet sur les prêts des autres institutions financières. Le modèle à équations simultanées indique par ailleurs que le développement des circuits financiers mesuré au travers des prêts des qu…
Inequality and Growth in Modern China
This book provides updated coverage of inequality and poverty issues in China. Some of the methodologies developed may be used in other contexts and for other countries. The use of different data sources and state-of-art research techniques ensures that the findings and conclusions can be substantiated and that the policy recommendations are reliable and robust. Rapidly rising inequality in China has contributed to the sluggishness of domestic de…
Distributional Consequences of Globalisation
This paper investigates the impact of globalisation on cross-country inequality using a large panel dataset. The findings reveal that location and capital are the main determinants of inequality; trade intensity and foreign direct investment make only a small contribution (approximately 4%). The relative contributions of trade and foreign direct investment to inequality have changed little over time and have certainly not increased at the same ra…
Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China
This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences, analyzing in detail the regional/personal variation in incomes, measures of human wellbeing, the gap between the coastal regions and the interior regions, and urban-rural disparity
Spatial decomposition of inequality
This paper reviews the theory and application of decomposition techniques in the context of spatial inequality. It establishes some new theoretical results with potentially wide applicability, and examines empirical evidence drawn from a large number of countries
The size distribution and growth pattern of cities in China, 1982–2010
China's urbanization in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is a crucial process in transforming the country. Taking advantage of the de facto counts of city population in the last four censuses since 1982, this paper examines the city-size distribution and growth pattern of large cities in China in recent three decades. Combined with earlier data and work on the Mao era, the paper also presents some long-term trends and helps ans…
An Empirical Analysis of Household Vulnerability in Rural China
Based on a set of household survey data, this paper is among the first to analyze vulnerability in rural China. In particular, cohort analysis is introduced to explore the relationship between vulnerability and diversification and the education–vulnerability nexus. Empirical results indicate that, contrary to earlier findings, diversification into non-agriculture activities is found to exert little effects on vulnerability, and that education is …
The Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle
Overview on ‘escaping the middle-income trap’
The ‘middle-income trap’ has become a popular theme in the literature and among policy-makers, even though a precise definition of it and empirical evidence for it are hard to pin down.1 The argume
Why Asia and China have lower urban concentration and urban primacy
Asia is densely populated and home to most of the world's megacities. However, its urban primacy and urban concentration, especially those of developing Asia, are much lower than their counterparts in the rest of the world. This is an important puzzle that has not been addressed in the literature. Motivated by a theory of Krugman and Livas Elizondo, this paper attributes the lower urban concentration and urban primacy to higher levels of trade op…
Why do Poverty Rates Differ from Region to Region? The Case of Urban China
This paper proposes a semi-parametric method for poverty decomposition, which combines the data-generating procedure of Shorrocks and Wan (2004) Shorrocks, A. and Wan, G. 2004. “A simple method for generating income data from Lorenz coordinates”. Mimeo, Helsinki, , Finland: World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University. [Google Scholar] with the Shapley value framework of Shorrocks (1999) Shorrocks, A. 1999. Decomp…
Agricultural Reform in China
Models of the Chinese Economy . Peter Lloyd , Xiao-guang Zhang
Spatial decomposition of inequality
This paper reviews the theory and application of decomposition techniques in the context of spatial inequality. It establishes some new theoretical results with potentially wide applicability, and examines empirical evidence drawn from a large number of countries
Introduction
Since the start of the economic reform process in China a quarter of a century ago, there have been spectacular increases in per capita income and equally spectacular reductions in income poverty
Why do Poverty Rates Differ from Region to Region? The Case of Urban China
This paper proposes a semi-parametric method for poverty decomposition, which combines the data-generating procedure of Shorrocks and Wan (2004) Shorrocks, A. and Wan, G. 2004. “A simple method for generating income data from Lorenz coordinates”. Mimeo, Helsinki, , Finland: World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University. [Google Scholar] with the Shapley value framework of Shorrocks (1999) Shorrocks, A. 1999. Decomp…
An Empirical Analysis of Household Vulnerability in Rural China
Based on a set of household survey data, this paper is among the first to analyze vulnerability in rural China. In particular, cohort analysis is introduced to explore the relationship between vulnerability and diversification and the education–vulnerability nexus. Empirical results indicate that, contrary to earlier findings, diversification into non-agriculture activities is found to exert little effects on vulnerability, and that education is …
Inequality and Growth in Modern China
This book provides updated coverage of inequality and poverty issues in China. Some of the methodologies developed may be used in other contexts and for other countries. The use of different data sources and state-of-art research techniques ensures that the findings and conclusions can be substantiated and that the policy recommendations are reliable and robust. Rapidly rising inequality in China has contributed to the sluggishness of domestic de…
Distributional Consequences of Globalisation
This paper investigates the impact of globalisation on cross-country inequality using a large panel dataset. The findings reveal that location and capital are the main determinants of inequality; trade intensity and foreign direct investment make only a small contribution (approximately 4%). The relative contributions of trade and foreign direct investment to inequality have changed little over time and have certainly not increased at the same ra…
Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China
This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences, analyzing in detail the regional/personal variation in incomes, measures of human wellbeing, the gap between the coastal regions and the interior regions, and urban-rural disparity
The political economy of China's robust performance
IDE en Chine
Cet article étudie les impacts des IDE sur le développement financier en Chine. L’étude empirique, basée sur des données de panel au niveau provincial entre 1987 et 2004, montre que les IDE stimulent les prêts des quatre grandes banques d’état mais n’a aucun effet sur les prêts des autres institutions financières. Le modèle à équations simultanées indique par ailleurs que le développement des circuits financiers mesuré au travers des prêts des qu…
A ZEN approach to post-2015 development goals for Asia and the Pacific
Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia
This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentall
Why Asia and China have lower urban concentration and urban primacy
Asia is densely populated and home to most of the world's megacities. However, its urban primacy and urban concentration, especially those of developing Asia, are much lower than their counterparts in the rest of the world. This is an important puzzle that has not been addressed in the literature. Motivated by a theory of Krugman and Livas Elizondo, this paper attributes the lower urban concentration and urban primacy to higher levels of trade op…
Overview on ‘escaping the middle-income trap’
The ‘middle-income trap’ has become a popular theme in the literature and among policy-makers, even though a precise definition of it and empirical evidence for it are hard to pin down.1 The argume
The size distribution and growth pattern of cities in China, 1982–2010
China's urbanization in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is a crucial process in transforming the country. Taking advantage of the de facto counts of city population in the last four censuses since 1982, this paper examines the city-size distribution and growth pattern of large cities in China in recent three decades. Combined with earlier data and work on the Mao era, the paper also presents some long-term trends and helps ans…
Poverty and inequallity in Asia
This paper aims to depict the post-Second World War poverty and inequality trends in Asia, its sub-regions, and individual economies. Efforts are made to explain these trends and explore the interrelationship between growth, poverty, and inequality in Asia. Analytical results confirm significant reductions in poverty across the board due to fast growth, although the benign effect of growth on poverty was offset by worsening distribution in many e…
Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics
Building on his three decades of careful research, Professor Kam Wing Chan expertly dissects the complexity of China's hukou system, migration, urbanization and their interrelationships in this set of journal articles published in the last ten years. This book examines several fundamental issues in China's migration and urbanization: the definitions of and statistics about cities and migration, the hukou system, the rural migrant workers, and the…
Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia
Reetu's principal areas of
Investing for urban-rural migration
Neither clear theoretical interpretation nor empirical validation of public educational investment to urban-rural migration or urbanization exists comprehensively. This paper comprehensively analyzes the relationship between public educational investment and urban-rural migration to fill in this niche. We first discuss the theoretical effect of public educational investment and urban-rural migration. Although public educational investment results…
The Chinese economy
China's poverty reduction miracle and relative poverty
The impact of political relations on international trade
In May 2012, with tensions over Huangyan Island taking an increasingly sour turn, China released a document to strengthen inspection and quarantine of fruits imported from the Philippines. To many, this retaliation implied that the former launched economic sanctions against the latter over the growing conflict. As such, this paper takes that tension as a quasi‐natural experiment to examine the impact of deteriorating political relations on trade.…
The Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle
The income inequality-CO2 emissions nexus
Economics (29 works) · Political science (21 works) · Development economics (19 works) · China (18 works) · Economic growth (17 works) · Geography (15 works) · Inequality (14 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (12 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (11 works) · Poverty (11 works)