China's Spatial Economic Development: Restless Landscapes in the Lower Yangzi Delta. Andrew M. Marton

2002 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 203-205
Author(s):  
Godfrey Linge
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Yangzi Delta

Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

2012 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 956-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bozhong Li ◽  
Jan Luiten van Zanden
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Yangzi Delta

This article tests recent ideas about the long-term economic development of China compared with Europe on the basis of a detailed comparison of structure and level of GDP in part of the Yangzi delta and the Netherlands in the 1820s. We find that Dutch GDP per capita was almost twice as high as in the Yangzi delta. Agricultural productivity there was at about the same level as in the Netherlands (and England), but large productivity gaps existed in industry and services. We attempt to explain this concluding that differences in factor costs are probably behind disparities in labor productivity.

China's Spatial Economic Development: Restless Landscapes in the Lower Yangzi Delta

2002 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Yue-man Yeung ◽  
Andrew M. Marton
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Yangzi Delta
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