%0 Journal Article
%T Comparing China and India: Is the dividend of economic reforms polarized?
%A Sudip Ranjan Basu
%J The European Journal of Comparative Economics
%D 2009
%I European Association for Comparative Economic Studies and Universita Carlo Cattaneo
%X The paper compares the economic performance of China and India during the period of their ongoing reform policies. It develops a new measure of development, namely, a development quality index (DQI), to compare performance of China and India. The results show that national-level development quality grew three times faster in China than in India. Conversely, the health quality index grew three times as fast in India than China over the period 1980-2004, narrowing the gap in outcomes. The overall regional development quality level improved in both countries, but polarization widened in China. The direction of overall inter-regional polarization in China indicates a rising concentration of development gains from economic reform policies. The inter-regional economic polarization in recent years is more pronounced in India.
%K Development
%K Inequality
%K Polarization
%K China
%K India
%U http://eaces.liuc.it/18242979200901/182429792009060105.pdf