performance will be poor and the income distribution issue will worsen. Foreign trade will also be retarded. Only if governments …

This paper argues that the regional income gap of China is endogenously determined by its long-term economic … comparative advantages. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the government has pushed a CAD strategy, i …, the provinces in the central and western regions continue to follow the CAD strategy and have poor growth performance …

intervention policies in east developed countries. It is argued that the distorted institutional structure in China and in many … China from 1950s to 1980s to show the co-existence and coevolution of government adoption of comparative advantage defying …