continues to privilege the migration of working-age individuals who often leave children and elders behind in the rural areas …

In this chapter, using selected rural samples of the CHIP 2002 and CHIP 2013 surveys that cover a total of fourteen …

This paper investigates the economic conditions of rural households in China. Historical survey data indicate that over … 80 per cent of rural households earn less than 4,500 yuan in net disposable income each year, that for the vast majority … of rural households disposable income is insufficient to meet food consumption needs, and that in terms of economic …

Purpose: The need for a universal rural pension system has been heightened by demographic changes in rural China …, including the rapid aging of the nation’s rural population and a dramatic decline in fertility. In response to these changes …, China’s Government introduced the New Rural Social Pension Program (NRSPP) in 2009, a voluntary and highly subsidized …

This paper depicts the trend of regional inequality in rural China for the period 1985-2002. The total inequality is …

continues to privilege the migration of working-age individuals who often leave children and elders behind in the rural areas …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of … migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …