This review discusses the challenges and opportunities of German rural areas. Significant differences between East and West persist and many of these have clear rural dimensions. Factors such as CAP reforms, ageing of the German population and migration trends will also have important rural...

Introduction -- Chapter One: The Rural–urban Division -- Chapter Two: Literature Review -- Chapter Three: Policies and Institutions Concerning Resource Flow -- Chapter Four: Methodology -- Chapter Five: Peasants’ View -- Chapter Six: Officials’ View -- Chapter Seven: Quantitative Results...

Primary school availability and middle school education in rural China / Li Li and Haoming Liu -- The long-run effects of the free compulsory education reform in rural China / Yun Xiao, Li Li and Liqiu Zhao -- New cooperative medical scheme and health expenditure in rural China -- Choice of...

1. Critique of ideas -- 2. Theoretical thinking on land circulation -- 3. Breakthrough point of China's rural land system reform -- 4. An unique opportunity for China's rural land circulation -- 5. Land trust : the new system for rural land circulation -- 6. "Cloud trust + land trust" :...

Chapter 1 Rural Households and Generational Evolution -- Chapter 2 Transition in Household Economic Structure and Its Origin -- Chapter 3 Farmland, Farmland Transfer and The Origins -- Chapter 4 Evolution of Saving and Lending Behaviour -- Chapter 5 Imbalanced Economic Development and Its Origin...