By 2010, only one-quarter of workers in China had received a high school (HS) education. One of the root causes of this … low rate is that China has the highest HS tuition fees globally. Although the Chinese government has implemented a series … of programs to reduce the cost of attending vocational HS, the cost of attending academic HS in China remains high. This …

In the 1990s, poor, rural youth in China had limited access to college. After mass college expansion started in 1998 …

The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China's colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high … tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education … was run among the 200 poorest first-year students in four first-tier colleges in inland China. Somewhat surprisingly, we …

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 …