社会资本与区域经济增长:基于中国区域视角的实证分析

Social Capital and Regional Economic Growth: Empirical Study Based on Regions of China

运用我国各省市区2000～2009年面板数据实证分析了社会资本与区域经济增长的关系。结果发现,社会资本的不同维度对区域经济增长均具有显著的促进作用,社会资本的不同维度在东、西部地区经济增长中的作用存在差异,民间组织密度对经济增长的作用在中西部强于东部,而社会信任度对经济增长的作用则是东部强于中西部。

This paper uses regional panel data from 2000 to 2009 in our country to empirically study the relationship between social capital and regional economic growth. Results show that： different dimensions of social capital can significantly pro-mote regional economic growth; social capital＇s role is different in different regions： density of civil society organizations in promoting eeonomie growth is stronger in the central and western regions than that in the east, but the social trust in promo-ting economic growth is stronger in the east than that in the central and western regions.