migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China …

, there is a surprising high relevance of common goods for low income households. Moreover, certain cultural patterns of …The paper shows the results of the RESCuE project, an in-depth qualitative investigation of 250 vulnerable households … prerequisites. Second, a wide scope of interrelated, substitutable and polyvalent practices allows the very few resilient households …