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

China, like many developing countries, has seen a dramatic increase in the use of pesticides and other agricultural … pesticide supply reached about 340 thousand tons and China is likely to become the biggest pesticide consumer in the world …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, we attempt to assess the effectiveness of China's Poverty Alleviation Programs in contributing to … economic growth in poor areas. To meet this overall goal, we briefly describe China's poor area policy and examine how its … the poverty programs have been implemented in the parts of China that are truly poor. Finally, we attempt to assess if the …

Although health is an important factor in economic development, millions of China's rural residents have no medical … coverage. Nearly 10 percent of those that were sick in rural China consciously did not seek medical care, mostly because of … deteriorating situation, a new cooperative medical system (NCMS) was initialized in rural China in 2003 by the government. However …

Purpose – The paper aims to discuss whether the younger generation of China's rural labor force is prepared, in terms … of education level or labor quality, for the future labor markets under China's industrial upgrading. Design …, and some policy implications are made. Findings – This paper finds that China's young rural laborers are generally poorly …

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 …

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 …