Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases in income uncertainty in the 1990s have increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated...

Die Entwicklung der ländlichen Industrien in der VR China ist mit einem elfprozentigen jährlichen Wachstum der Reallöhne über die letzten zehn Jahre einer der bemerkenswertesten Erfolge der chinesischen Wirtschaftsreform. Zu diesem Erfolg kam es trotz relativ rigider Kontrollen der...

"During the Chinese Cultural Revolution many schools stopped normal operation for a long time, senior high schools stopped student recruitment for up to 6 years, and universities stopped recruitment for an even longer period. Such large scale school interruptions significantly reduced the...