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Equal access to basic public services mainly involves influential factors such as the equalization of public transportation, compulsory education, and public health, which are virtually impure public goods. With the deepening of market reforms and structural adjustment, people are becoming increasingly concerned with education, health care, and social security as their subsistence needs are satisfied.
This is a revised and updated version of “On the Sufficiency and Fairness of Impure Public Goods,” published in the Economic Perspectives, 6 (2007), pp. 21–26.
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C.P. Oman and G. Wignaraja, The Postwar Evolution of Development Thinking, trans., Wu Zhengzhang and Zhang Qi (Beijing: Development Press of China, 2000), p. 79.
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John C.H. Fei and Gustav Ranis, Growth and Development from the Evolutionary Perspective, trans., Hong Yinxing and Zheng Jianghuai (Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2004), p. 405.
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In addition to the pure public goods, public goods include quasi- and sub-public goods. The present study focuses on impure public goods.
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Hong, Y. (2016). The Reform of the Public-Goods Supply System. In: The China Path to Economic Transition and Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-843-4_5
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