Gradual change has been a hallmark of the Chinese reform experience, and China's success in its sequential approach … this, China remains poor and the reform process unfinished. This book takes its defining theme from Deng Xiaopeng's famous … metaphor for gradual reform: “feeling the stones to cross the river.” How far has China progressed in fording the river? The …

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

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to quantify the implications of China's recently adopted agricultural policies … applied to address whether China's recent trade and production policies distort China's domestic and international commodity … increase China's production slightly, causing imports to decrease while exports decline because of input subsidies, export …

Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …

– Based on an empirical investigation of rural financial reforms, it is argued that China's two-decade long financial reform …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 …