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This chapter attempts to investigate the impact of intra-city government structure on within-city fiscal disparity across Chinese cities. We focus on fiscal disparity because local governments’ fiscal capacities affect their ability to provide public services, and disparity in public service accessibility increases income inequality.
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Li, H., Wang, Q., Zheng, C. (2018). Local Government Fragmentation and Fiscal Disparity Across Chinese Cities. In: Ye, L. (eds) Urbanization and Urban Governance in China. Governing China in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57824-2_10
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