Examines China's rural sector problems including poverty, income inequality, barriers of rural-urban migration, discrimination against rural workers, poor rural governance and the impact of WTO membership. This book also tackles the important subjects of inadequate infrastructure and discriminatory credit services.

This book examines China's rural sector problems including poverty, income inequality, barriers of rural-urban migration, discrimination against rural workers, poor rural governance and the impact of WTO membership. It also tackles the important subjects of inadequate infrastructure and discriminatory credit services. Strategies to modernize China's rural economy are proposed and the relevant experiences and lessons of other countries are analysed.

Introduction: China's rural economy after WTO: problems and strategies, Shunfeng Song and Aimin Chen. Gender Inequality in Rural Areas: Gender inequalities and rural development: some neglected and hidden dimensions, Bina Agarwal
Women's status in the household in rural China: does market labor matter?, Fiona MacPhail and Xiao-Yuan Dong
China's rural labor market development and its gender implications, Scott Rozelle, Linxiu Zhang and Alan De Brauw
Rising gender gap in non-agricultural employment in rural China, Xiaoyun Liu, Terry Sicullar and Xian Xin. Poverty and Income Inequalities: The poverty of rights and Chinese farmer's land property, Zhaohui Hong
Accounting for income inequality in rural China: a regression based approach, Guanghua Wan
Decomposition of China's rising income inequality: is rural-urban income gap solely responsible?, Gene H. Chang
Economic openness, local governance, and rural economy, Ding Lu. Rural-urban migration: characteristics of rural-urban migrants: the case of Tianjin, China, Zhigang Lu and Shunfeng Song
Choices between defferent off-farm employment Sun-Categories: an empirical analysis for Jiangxi Province, China, Xiaoping Shi, Nico Heerink and Futian Qu
Urban-rural Hukou differentials in China's labor relations, Xianguo Yao and Puqing Lai
Human capital, rural industrialization and China's labor market in 1990s, Yuyu Chen and Chunbing Xing
Economic conditions and urbanization: comparing five Chinese Provinces, Aimin Chen. The Role of Government in Rural Development: The caring hand of a local government in China, Wenbo Wu
Infrastructure and regional economic development in rural China, Shenggen Fan and Xiaobo Zhang
Local Ggvernment indebtedness in China: what is the role for the municipal government bond market?, Ligang Liu Shaoqiang Chen
Fiscal decentralization and political centralization in China: implications for regional inequality, Xiaobo Zhang
On the institutional arrangements of farmer cooperatives in China, Zuhui Huang, Xu-chu Xu and Yu Song
Government regulations, Legal-soft-constraint and rural grassroots democracy in China, Qi Zhang, Mingxing Liu and Wei Shan
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