Reforming China’s Rural Health System - ISBN: 9780821379820

China’s Financial Sector: Contributions to Growth and Downside Risks

Any evaluation of China’s financial system and its prospects must concentrate on its contribution to China’s economic growth and to related solutions to a range of domestic economic goals. The evolution of China’s financial system, in all its various dimensions, is in midstream, with its many market and non-market aspects reforming simultaneously. Its hybrid nature, with aspects considered by f...

Not a Zero-Sum Game: China’s Internal Migration and the Wellbeing of Rural-origin Children

Two-fifths of the 279 million children in China are directly affected by the on-going massive internal migration. Using data from a nationally representative survey covering junior high school students in both rural and urban areas, we examine the causal impacts of different migration processes (parental migration, child migration, and hukou conversion) on rural children’s wellbeing measured by...

China’s Rural Health System in Transition: towards Coherent Institutional Arrangements?

Turning Policy Promises into Blue Skies: Mixed-Method Assessment of China's Past and Future Air Pollution-Reduction Efforts

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Developments and Prospects for Rural Finance in China

A central theme of China’s 11 Five Year Plan (2006-2010) is the building of a “new socialist countryside.” Over recent years, reforming rural finance and improving access to credit by small businesses and farmers has figured increasingly prominently in the leadership’s proclamations of support to rural economic development. While hundreds of pilot innovations in small-scale finance have been pu...