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The Rise of Rural-to-Rural Labor Markets in China [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001 The continued transfer of agricultural labor into the industrial sector is crucial to China's transformation into an industrial economy. We argue in this paper that rural industry offers an alternative to urban industry for receiving agricultural labor from areas without off-farm employment opportunities.
Lohmar, Bryan +2 more
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Education and poverty in rural China [PDF]
Economics of Education Review, 2002 We analyze household and school survey data from poor counties in six Chinese provinces to examine the effects of poverty, intra-household decision-making, and school quality on educational investments (enrollment decisions) and learning outcomes (test scores and grade promotion).
Brown, Phil H., Park, Albert Francis
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Rural infrastructure and poverty in China
PLOS ONE, 2022 The study develops a theoretical framework of how irrigation and drainage infrastructure and rural transportation infrastructure influence poverty. Using panel data on 31 provinces in China from 2002 to 2017, this paper estimates basic and continuous difference-in-differences (DID) models to investigate the preliminary impact of irrigation and drainage
Xiaodi Qin, Haitao Wu, Tiecheng Shan
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The world of new economy, 2022 The article shows how the process of the Chinese economy’s digitalization, which began in urban areas, manufacturing, and rich provinces of China, now starts to engulf the rural areas. The digital gap between certain provinces and between urban and rural areas must be liquidated as part of the Chinese government’s strategy to make the country a ...
E. F. Avdokushin, Wang Zhui
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Inequality and Poverty in Rural China [PDF]
, 2013 Chapter from: 'Rising Inequality in China: Challenge to a Harmonious Society', edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato and Terry Sicular.
Chuliang Luo, Terry Sicular
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Rural restructuring in China [PDF]
Journal of Rural Studies, 2016 This multidisciplinary special issue examines the contemporary rural restructuring in China, focusing on spatial restructuring, economic restructuring and social restructuring and the key challenges for rural areas, whether at local, regional, national or international level.
Yansui Liu, Hualou Long
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Migration and rural poverty in China [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005 We analyze two complementary household datasets from China's poor areas to examine whether the poor migrate and whether migration helps the poor. We find an inverted-U-shaped relationship between household endowments and the likelihood of migration. Over time, the poor are more likely to migrate.
Du, Yang +2 more
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In Search of Community in Rural China
ASIANetwork Exchange A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2020 Change in China’s urban areas is dramatic, as cityscapes emerge from rice paddies. China’s rural areas reflect the impact of globalization, especially as villagers leave home for work in towns and cities. Much of the current research on migration out of China’s countryside has noted its negative consequences for village life, a phenomenon often dubbed “
Ann Maxwell Hill +2 more
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Protest Leadership in Rural China [PDF]
The China Quarterly, 2008 AbstractRural protest leaders in China play a number of roles. Among others, they lead the charge, shape collective claims, recruit activists and mobilize the public, devise and orchestrate acts of contention, and organize cross-community efforts. Protest leaders emerge in two main ways. Long-standing public figures initiate popular action on their own
Li, Lianjiang, O'brien, Kevin J
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Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of subjective well-being functions to simultaneously explore relative concerns with respect to income and remittances.
Akay, Alpaslan +4 more
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