China has made great progress in weaving its social safety net in the new century. By constructing the three pillars of … its social protection system – the pension system, the medical care system, and social assistance – China is trying to … cover all its people under the system. Regardless of these great achievements in coverage, China has been facing challenges …

China experienced a 47% expansion in higher education enrolment between 1998 and 1999, and a six-fold expansion in the … returns to higher education in China. We find that the mean years of education increased by roughly one full year around the …

This paper studies the impact of remittances on the savings behaviour of rural households in China, using a cross …

Using data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large Chinese cities at year end 2001, we quantify the …

With the aid of an analytical framework of the Lewis model revised to reflect the experience of China, this paper … China’s growth as achieved during the course of economic reform and the opening-up of the country: the exploitation of the … the approaching turning point in China’s economic development and examines a host of challenges facing the country in …