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Title: | Between local community and central state: Financing basic education in China | Authors: | Zhao, L. | Keywords: | Basic education Decentralization Educational surcharges Regional disparity Rural-urban gap |
Issue Date: | Jul-2009 | Citation: | Zhao, L. (2009-07). Between local community and central state: Financing basic education in China. International Journal of Educational Development 29 (4) : 366-373. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2008.10.005 | Abstract: | From the early 1980s, China underwent perhaps the world's largest and most comprehensive experiment of decentralization in education. There has been a shift from decentralization to some degree of recentralization, however, since the mid-1990s, particularly since the early 2000s. The purpose of this shift was to establish a stable and regularized financing mechanism for rural education. Using provincial-level data from between 1997 and 2005, this paper analyzes whether the shift worked as expected. It finds that by the end of 2005, there had been a substantial decrease in the rural-urban gap, the regional disparity, and the overall inequality in per student budgetary expenditure and total spending. Much of the decline occurred in the 2000s. Moreover, the rural-urban gap declined more rapidly than the regional disparity, and inequalities in spending on primary education declined much more rapidly than junior secondary education. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | Source Title: | International Journal of Educational Development | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/115610 | ISSN: | 07380593 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2008.10.005 |
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