China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social …/urban, inland/coastal and provincial—dominates in a country as large as China, and especially with its particular history. The three … regional inequality in China. The object of this volume is to bring together a selection of these papers by us and our co …

China as an example. Agricultural research lower food prices, and therefore help urban poor by lowing their food cost. …

shown the opposite in the product market. This article argues that as the rent from China’s product market has been squeezed …

It has been widely observed that China is under-urbanized. The central government has tried to use various policies to … promote urbanization. In this paper, we evaluate one of these policies – count-to-city upgrading. Under China’s hierarchical … governance structure, a city status can only be determined and awarded by the central government. In the 1980s and 1990s, China …

-wave census-type panel data in 18 villages in rural western China, two identification strategies, instrumental variable and …