The competitiveness and development strategies of provinces in China: a data envelopment analysis approach

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• 作者：Sung Ko Li ; Long Zhao
• 关键词：Competitiveness ; Data envelopment analysis ; Proportional and disproportional development strategies ; Chinese economy ; Regional inequality ; C61 ; D29 ; O29 ; O53
• 刊名：Journal of Productivity Analysis
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：44
• 期：3
• 页码：293-307
• 全文大小：543 KB
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• 作者单位：Sung Ko Li (1)
  Long Zhao (2)
  
  1. Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
  2. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  
• 刊物类别：Business and Economics
• 刊物主题：Economics
  Microeconomics
  Econometrics
  Operation Research and Decision Theory
  Accounting and Auditing
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0441

文摘

This paper explores the development strategies of Chinese provinces by synthesizing the dimensions of a competitiveness index and the Data Envelopment Analysis model. After documenting the close relationship between real GDP per capita and competitiveness, we introduce a production approach to study competitiveness and develop various possible strategies facing a province. In particular, while coastal provinces should consider innovating new technologies and institutions to improve competitiveness, western provinces may adopt a proportional development strategy that simultaneously enhances every aspect of its competitiveness. Further, the proportional development strategy for competitiveness is found to reduce regional disparity. The policy implications from our framework could not have been achieved had the analysis been solely based on the conventional methods of studying the competitiveness index. Keywords Competitiveness Data envelopment analysis Proportional and disproportional development strategies Chinese economy Regional inequality