"The paper studies regional (spatial) inequality in the five most populous countries in the world: China, India, the …/provinces in China and India. The United States, where regional inequality is the least, shows further convergence. Brazil, with …

entry matters more than access to the rest of China, which is consistent with market fragmentation due to underdeveloped …

data collected for this study through surveys. Beijing is the first choice for companies locating in China, but foreign …

China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …

China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …

China's progress in poverty reduction over the last 25 years is enviable. One cannot fail to be impressed by what this … stage of development than it was at the dawn of the economic reforms at the beginning of the 1980s. China's poverty … most recent official estimate of rural poverty in China for 2007 puts the number of poor at 14.79 million, or less than 2 …

the Loess Plateau area. The M&E system for the China Watershed Management Project (CWMP) has been developed on the base of … describe the specific features of and challenges for watershed M&E before chapter five goes into a detailed presentation of the …

China has undergone a profound economic and social transformation as it moves from a centrally-planned to a market …-oriented economy. Land issues are implicated in this ongoing transformation in numerous important ways - as key factors in China …'s quest for economic growth, national food security and social stability; as important influences in the rapid growth of China …

China is a global leader in the use of ecological compensation ("eco-compensation”)—fiscal transfers for environmental … and natural resources management. China is one of the most fiscally decentralized countries in the world, with 85 percent … impacts, and distills broad lessons from China for similar policies globally …