从区域间服务价格不同的原因看反贫困的视角

Poverty Reduction:The Perspective of Different Interregional Service Prices

穷国的服务价格比富国低的原因,既不在于生产效率之高下,也不在于要素比例之差异,而在于穷国的服务提供者面临的机会成本比富国低。要可持续地反贫困,除了提高贫困人群的机会成本外,还需要为他们创造更多、更有利的选择机会。

Service prices are lower in poor countries than in rich ones, not because of differences in productivity or factor proportion, but because of lower opportunity cost that confronts service providers in poor countries. Sustainable poverty reduction requires not only increasing opportunity cost for the poor, but also creating a large number of more favorable choices for them.