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Harnessing the Forces of Urban Expansion –The Public Economics of Farmland Development Allowence

Author
Chau, Nancy H.; Zhang, Weiwen
Abstract
For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. Less well known is the fact that development of newly cultivated land has in fact consistently exceeded land conversion from 1999-2006. This paper provides an analytical model that makes sense of this observation, featuring scal decentralization, local governments as custodians of land use and land development, as well as a land development allowance policy put in place in 1998. The model shows how a land development allowance policy can harness and redirect the forces of urban expansion to encourage agricultural land development.
Description
WP 2010-11 July 2010 JEL Classification Codes: H11; H77; P35; R5; R14; H11; O18
Date Issued
2010-07-01Publisher
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
Subject
land development allowance; fiscal decentralization; inter-jurisdictional competition; agricultural development
Type
article