Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off …

The main features of China’s current sub-national finance arrangements date back to the 1994 tax reform. China has a … government has raised the scale of transfers. Over the past decade, China’s transfer policy has addressed the horizontal … strong budgets. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Survey of China (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/china …

In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made … over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen …, and social implications in today's China. Given the well-documented correlation between landlessness and rural poverty …