(NSC) development at county level in China, and by which to evaluate the level of NSC construction among different regions … in China. Then, some problems of rural development can be found and corresponding measures can be proposed, which could … index system was used to evaluate the level of NSC construction in 28 counties of China in 2007. Finally, we calculated …

Purpose – The New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS), implemented in China since 2003, has greatly increased the … purpose of this paper is to empirically study the effects of medical insurance on durables consumption in rural China. Design …/methodology/approach – Using China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data, the authors study the effects of medical insurance on durable goods …

Medical Scheme (NRCMS), as well as in outpatient and inpatient service utilization, in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. Design … study to empirically test the adverse selection in China's medical insurance market from the perspective of two different …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to make a general comparison between urban-rural relationship in China and that … in China could be predicted. Design/methodology/approach – The core analysis of this paper examines how the urban … industrial stages. In parallel, it goes through this relationship in China from 1949 until now. Findings – This paper shows that …

from a national household survey conducted by the Research Center for the Rural Economy (RCRE) at China's Ministry of … Agriculture. More specifically, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate the scale and dispersion of China's farm-household hired …) of household survey data collected by the Research Center for Rural Economy at China's Ministry of Agriculture. Findings …

“degradation” is in fact contested by resource users. Most grassland scientists, Party and Government officials in China have …