implications – The findings suggest that poverty lines for rural China preferably should consider not only spatial differences in … household members. The paper also aims to find out how poverty lines and poverty counts derived from people's perception relate … to what has been previously reported. Design/methodology/approach – The Subjective Poverty Line (SPL) methodology is …

Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse the current poverty situation and poverty alleviation efforts of the NGOs in … that the majority of the NGO beneficiaries remained below the poverty line in terms of income and the overwhelming majority … employment opportunity. The qualitative data on the perception of beneficiaries on the causes of poverty endorse this finding …

(NSC) development at county level in China, and by which to evaluate the level of NSC construction among different regions … in China. Then, some problems of rural development can be found and corresponding measures can be proposed, which could … index system was used to evaluate the level of NSC construction in 28 counties of China in 2007. Finally, we calculated …

Purpose – The New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS), implemented in China since 2003, has greatly increased the … purpose of this paper is to empirically study the effects of medical insurance on durables consumption in rural China. Design …/methodology/approach – Using China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data, the authors study the effects of medical insurance on durable goods …

Medical Scheme (NRCMS), as well as in outpatient and inpatient service utilization, in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. Design … study to empirically test the adverse selection in China's medical insurance market from the perspective of two different …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to make a general comparison between urban-rural relationship in China and that … in China could be predicted. Design/methodology/approach – The core analysis of this paper examines how the urban … industrial stages. In parallel, it goes through this relationship in China from 1949 until now. Findings – This paper shows that …

from a national household survey conducted by the Research Center for the Rural Economy (RCRE) at China's Ministry of … Agriculture. More specifically, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate the scale and dispersion of China's farm-household hired …) of household survey data collected by the Research Center for Rural Economy at China's Ministry of Agriculture. Findings …

“degradation” is in fact contested by resource users. Most grassland scientists, Party and Government officials in China have …

and relatives in rural China. Guided by an economic model of household-production interactions, the paper provides results … of China's agricultural sector. A small farm bias in formal lending is indicated by the results, but there are many …/implications – The research is limited to the survey data used. China's agricultural economy is too large to assert that the informal …