Rising concern over urban-rural economic disparity in China in the early 2000s spurred a series of policy initiatives …

"Twenty years ago, seemingly everything for sale at American retailers had a "Made In China" sticker on it. Now, things … underway. Even as American commentators fret over "rising China," the real threat lies in a virtually unknown story: that of a … country's future-and the world. Far from the prospect of global takeover, a China newly adrift has the potential to be our …

with respect to entry modes and sectoral distribution. On the basis of a panel dataset covering 30 provinces in China from …

The urban-rural divide in China was an entrenched feature of Chinese society in the Maoist era. This divide generated … and continues to generate inequality as between the rural population and the urban population. In post-Deng China, legal … this paper, it is argued that the emergence of the phenomenon of “quasi-commons” in rural China, crossing the “borders” of …

Using new household survey data for 1995 and 2002, we investigate the size of China's urban-rural income gap, the gap …'s contribution to overall inequality in China, and the factors underlying the gap. Our analysis improves on past estimates by using a … substantially reduce China's urban-rural income gap and its contribution to inequality. Nevertheless, the gap remains large and has …