Purpose – Since 1999, China has undergone reform of its healthcare system. City-based social health insurance (SHI) is … cooperative medical system (NCMS) was introduced in 1993 and extended to cover the whole of rural China in 2003. Design … in China for urban citizens and rural residents separately. Least square and logistic regressions are employed. Findings …

China has experienced during the past 20 years as well as being responsible for some of the remaining barriers, the nation … rural China. Surprisingly, however, even though the potential for gain and for damage is great, almost no literature exists … rest of this paper as follows. In the first section, I will first review China's macro setting and discuss a number of the …

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). …

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 …

providing information on college costs and financial aid to high school students in poor regions of northwest China. We find …