比较优势和“资源诅咒”悖论与资源富集地区经济增长路径选择——基于对中国地区间经济增长差异原因的扩展分析

On the Selection of Economic Growth Path for Resource Abundant Regions in View of the Comparative Advantages and the Paradox of "Resource Curse": An Extended Analysis of the Reasons Leading to Different Inter- regional Economic Growth in China

中国地区经济增长差距的原因可主要归结为,由于自然地理条件、人口集聚规模、制度因素的地区差异,导致各地区在劳动力、资本、技术等生产要素集聚及要素配置方面出现差别,"资源诅咒"并非是导致地区经济差距的原因。因此,具备自然资源比较优势的地区应该充分利用自身的资源禀赋,不断推动自然资本优势向物质资本、人力资本优势的转化,通过将资源租金用于教育、基础设施建设和推动城镇化进程,缩小地区间地理区位、人口集聚规模的差异,实现地区经济增长的渐进收敛。

Through verification of falsification between the comparative advantage and the paradox of ＂resource curse＂ , and based on an extended analysis of the reasons leading to different inter-regional economic growth in China, this paper firstly discusses the selection of paths for resource abundant regions to keep long-term economic growth. Based on the analysis, this paper believes that the reasons for the difference existing in the economic growth at different regions in China can be roughly summarized into one word： the regional differences in natural geographical conditions, population and institutional factors will surely result in their differences in the collection and allocation of such productive factors as labor, capital, and technology. The ＂resource curse＂ is by no means the reason for the difference of regional economy. Therefore, the regions with comparative advantages of natural resources should make full use of their resources, push forward continually the transformation of natural capital advantages into advantages of material capital and human capital, decrease the difference in geographic conditions and population density through investing more in education, infrastructure construction, and urbanization, so as to realize the gradual progress and convergence in the regional economic growth.