"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 …

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 paper evaluates the effects of privatization in the post-communist economies and China. In post … institutional development. In China relatively more estimates suggest that privatization to domestic owners improves the level of …-communist economies, but foreign joint ventures rather than wholly owned foreign firms have a positive effect in China. Worker or …

. Forest transition has been observed in many countries and is a feature of the development process. China reached its … virtue of increasing planting and forest management and resource protection effort. The World Bank work in China's forestry … and information of China's forest sector and resources. Chapter three presents findings on collective forest tenure reform …