The overall goal of the paper is to understand the progress of the implementation of China’s New Cooperative Medical …

Purpose – The social safety net of health care insurance is rapidly expanding in rural China. New Rural Cooperative …

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 …

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 …

northwest China. Design/methodology/approach – Using hemoglobin (Hb) levels as the outcome variable, the authors first measure … itself, one of the policy implications of this study is that malnutrition is still a serious problem in China and it is worse …

environmental collapse or an export collapse. The fact that China has recently declared that its most important task is to build a … because a harmonious society cannot endure in China unless there is also a harmonious world, and vice-versa. The large amount … global environmental commons more likely. China's quest for a harmonious society requires it to help provide global public …

China has a built-in inflationary tendency because of the partially-reformed nature of its economic system … constraint is imposed on the SOEs, China's dysfunctional financial system would impart a deflationary bias to the economy and … render China a capital exporting country by constraining the growth of aggregate demand to be less than the growth of …

The major objective of this paper is to discuss the development of rural labor markets in China during the past two …