Chapter 1 Rural Households and Generational Evolution -- Chapter 2 Transition in Household Economic Structure and Its Origin -- Chapter 3 Farmland, Farmland Transfer and The Origins -- Chapter 4 Evolution of Saving and Lending Behaviour -- Chapter 5 Imbalanced Economic Development and Its Origin...

"The continuous migration of rural labor to cities has changed the fundamental characteristics of China's labor market, profoundly affected the country's investments, savings, technological progress and economic cycle fluctuation, and more importantly, the rapid development of non-agricultural...

While some argue that trade liberalization has raised incomes and led to environmental protection in developing countries, others claim that it generates neither poverty reduction nor sustainability. The detailed case studies in this book demonstrate that neither interpretation is universally...