Spatial Club Convergence of Regional Economic Growth in Inland China

abstract

• Spatial club convergence is a group of regions which are adjacent to each other in space and have similar initial conditions and structural features while converging towards the same steady state in the economic development. Based on the Solow model, this paper builds a theoretical model to prove the mechanism of spatial club convergence. The spatial club convergence process is explored in inland China, using the case of the Zhongyuan urban agglomeration during the years of 19932009. This region has been experiencing a dramatic economic development and serves as an ideal test bed of the theory of spatial club convergence. The results show that in the two periods of 19931999, and 19932009, there was spatial club convergence in the 56 regions of Zhongyuan urban agglomeration of China. The respective convergence rates were 2.0% and 1.0%. Hence, both theoretical deduction and empirical studies verify the hypothesis of spatial club convergence.

authors

• Ye, Xinyue

published proceedings

• SUSTAINABILITY

author list (cited authors)

• Qin, C., Ye, X., & Liu, Y.

citation count

• 12

complete list of authors

• Qin, Chenglin||Ye, Xinyue||Liu, Yingxia

publication date

• July 2017

publisher

• MDPI  Publisher

published in

• Sustainability  Journal

keywords

• Inland China
• Solow Model
• Spatial Club Convergence

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3390/su9071189

start page

• 1189

end page

• 1189

volume

• 9

issue

• 7

URL

• https://doi.org/10.3390/su9071189