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In this study, we use a more powerful nonlinear (logistic) unit root test advanced by Leybourne et al. (1998) to investigate the time-series properties of real gross domestic product for 25 Chinese provinces for the period 1952 to 1998. We strongly reject the null of unit root process for over half the provinces. These empirical results have important policy implications for China.

This study utilizes panel data analysis over the 1996 to 2015 period to investigate the impact of governance quality (including democratic quality and technical quality) on income inequality in ten Asain countries, classified as "advanced economies" and "emerging market and developing economies". The empirical results show that the impacts of democratic quality and technical quality on income inequality are significantly negative within "emerging market and developing economies". However, for the "advanced economies", the effects of democratic quality and technical quality on income inequality are nonsignificantly positive and significantly positive, respectively. These findings imply that promoting good governance is useful to reduce income inequality for "emerging market and developing economies" but the effect may not be effective for "advanced economies.