) involving 700 women in China’s Fujian and Liaoning Provinces. Villages were randomly assigned to either a control group or one …Officials in China claim that voting rates in rural village elections are high. Unfortunately, these rates are … assumptions, not facts. The true voting rate is lower, and much lower for women. We postulate that this could be due to …

training program on the nutritional status of primary school students in rural Shaanxi Province, in Northwest China. Using …

This paper helps build a clear picture of the role of women in China's agriculture and, if agricultural feminization … women in the emergence of China's labor markets. They explore who is working on China's farms, and the effects of these …. Even if women were taking over the farm, the consequences in China would be mostly positive from a labor supply …

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 …