Working paper on trends in rural women's labour force participation and fertility patterns in China. Examines rural … development policy based on the responsibility of the individual, household or work brigade for agricultural production. Covers … women workers in agricultural employment and rural industry, household income, living conditions, marriage, family planning …

The usual manner of describing inequality in a population, involves income distributions. China has experienced rapid … the financing of such services. The changing face of inequality in China is therefore not confined to income. As such this … different dimensions considered. My results show that there has been a significant increase in inequality in China between 1997 …

China within the cross-country relations of (absolute and conditional) convergence and its move since the transition period …. Then it evidences a cross-province relation of convergence within China, stronger if this is conditional than absolute …

Since the implementation of the economic reforms in 1978, there is a remarkable diversification trend in rural China …-industry diversification in rural China. …

into the detailed data of production and SO2 emission intensity of China’s 29 industrial sectors (occupying over 98% of the …

During the last decades, China has achieved some remarkable results in improving the health status of its population …

This paper has two main objectives : first, to evaluate and to analyse the spatial concentration of industry in China …; second, to estimate a link between the openness of China and this concentration. We are interested in the evolution of …

Using data from a survey of rural households in China, this article examines the impacts of non-farm activity on living …