shown the opposite in the product market. This article argues that as the rent from China’s product market has been squeezed …

It has been widely observed that China is under-urbanized. The central government has tried to use various policies to … promote urbanization. In this paper, we evaluate one of these policies – count-to-city upgrading. Under China’s hierarchical … governance structure, a city status can only be determined and awarded by the central government. In the 1980s and 1990s, China …

The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …

The emergence of China as an economic power is one of the miracle growth stories of the last part of the 20th century …). In fact, by the end of 2007 China had achieved many of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). …

-wave census-type panel data in 18 villages in rural western China, two identification strategies, instrumental variable and …

The overall aim of the present paper is to better understand the evolution of tubewell ownership in the North China … also show that the privatisation of tubewells has affected cropping patterns in the North China Plain. When villages shift …

Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …

Purpose – This paper seeks to understand the evolution of financial intermediation in the course of China's economic … collaborators from a 1998 survey of financial institutions, enterprises, and government officials in southern China. Findings … – Based on an empirical investigation of rural financial reforms, it is argued that China's two-decade long financial reform …