This paper studies the pump-set industry in rural China, which has led to the widespread diffusion of inexpensive and … rise of China’s pump-set industry, which includes hundreds of small family-owned enterprises that are doing business in a … manufacturing cluster located in a single small town in southern China. We then discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated …

Officials in China claim that voting rates in rural village elections are high. Unfortunately, these rates are …) involving 700 women in China’s Fujian and Liaoning Provinces. Villages were randomly assigned to either a control group or one …

China's agricultural sector faces challenges because most farms are still small scale. China's policy is to encourage … the consolidation of farms and promote farms that are larger in scale. A question that arises is: Are China's farms … growing? The goal of the present paper is to determine whether large farms in China have emerged or if farms remain small. To …

estimates of consumption-based poverty and inequality in rural Shaanxi, China. We also investigate whether using environmental …

This paper contributes to the assessment of China's rural labor markets, while paying attention to whether these …

This paper provides evidence regarding gains to agricultural market liberalization in China. We empirically identify … the different effects that incentive reforms and gradual market liberalization have on China's agricultural economy during …

rural China. After we describe investment patterns across different regions of rural China, we use a theoretical model to … descriptive findings. We test the hypotheses using household data collected in rural China in 2000 and find that in poorer areas …

Purpose – This paper aims to explain why the quality of infrastructure projects in rural China differs from village to …/methodology/approach – Using primary data collected by the authors on three types of infrastructure projects in villages across China, they created … infrastructure (and its determinants) were collected by the authors to allow for variation in the type of infrastructure projects …