results show that market reforms in China’s iron and steel industry strengthen competition at the national level but do not …

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

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 …

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 …

Gradual change has been a hallmark of the Chinese reform experience, and China's success in its sequential approach … Chinese economy has flourished. Growth has averaged nine percent a year, and China is now a trillion dollar economy. China has … this, China remains poor and the reform process unfinished. This book takes its defining theme from Deng Xiaopeng's famous …

China, like other middle income countries, is facing the challenges of the next stage of development as its leaders … China is facing in the transition from middle to high income: the management of inequality. In particular, we explore the … of its population. To meet this goal, we describe two challenges that China faces in the light of rising wage rates and …

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 …