Harnessing the Forces of Urban Expansion: The Public Economics of Farmland Development Allowances

For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. This contrasts sharply with another salient feature of the Chinese land policy reform landscape that has gone on largely unnoticed: the addition of newly cultivated land in China through land deve...

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Published in:Land economics 2011-08, Vol.87 (3), p.488-507
Main Authors: Chau, Nancy H., Zhang, Weiwen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural land
Agricultural land use
Agriculture
China
China (People's Republic)
Economic development
Economic theory
Economics
Farm size
Farming
Fiscal policy
Land
Land consolidation
Land development
Land economics
Land policy
Land reclamation
Land reform
Land settlement
Land use
Land use change
Land utilization
Local government
Real estate
Rural-urban migration
Studies
Urban agriculture
Urban development
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Summary:For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. This contrasts sharply with another salient feature of the Chinese land policy reform landscape that has gone on largely unnoticed: the addition of newly cultivated land in China through land development has consistently exceeded land conversion. In a model featuring fiscal decentralization, plus local governments as custodians of land use and development, along with a land development allowance policy instituted in 1998, we show that a land development allowance policy can harness the forces of urban expansion to encourage agricultural land development.
ISSN:0023-7639
1543-8325
DOI:10.3368/le.87.3.488