asset holdings. The model also suggests that capital account liberalization in China may trigger net portfolio outflows as …

tertiary education as the proxy, on the urban-rural income gap in China. Design/methodology/approach – Using a panel dataset … covering 28 provinces of China over the period from 1988 to 2007, this paper employs Hansen's method and two-step GMM … national level by 2014, when China's GDP per capita assumes an annual growth rate of 7.5 percent. Originality/value – This, it …

-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) household data. Results show that education and occupation are …

rural China, its trend and geographical distribution. Determinants or drivers of changes in the size of middle class are … middle class in rural China. Findings – Major findings include: in 2007, as many as 398 million rural residents or almost 54 … percent of China's rural population belonged to the middle class; the size estimate of China's rural middle class based on …

closely integrated with the mainland of China. Section I provides an overview of recent macroeconomic developments and the …