The incredible growth of China’s cattle, sheep and dairy production is a visible phenomenon of the past twenty years, but its foundations were laid decades earlier. Seeking to industrialize its hinterland, and exploit its vast wealth of grazing livestock, China created slaughtering and...

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables and Boxes -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 The Challenge of Industry and Rural Development -- PART A INDUSTRY DYNAMICS -- 2 Market, Household, Enterprise and Administrative...

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

The very low interest rates and inflation rates of recent years has generated renewed interest in alternative policies that would not leave central banks trapped by the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. Amongst this debate, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the possibility...