This article surveys the major rural policy changes that have occurred in China over the past two decades and analyses the results from national surveys to obtain a picture of the changes in rural labour allocation, income and poverty levels, and income inequality over the period 1991-2011. We...

In the late 1990s, China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) underwent dramatic labor retrenchment, drawing considerable attention to how women fared relative to men during the retrenchment process. However, almost all the existing studies on the subject rely on individual-level data. In this...

In this paper we undertake a comparative study of productivity in the manufacturing sector for China and India using data from survey of manufacturing industries for the two countries. We find that productivity of manufacturing industries in China relative to that in India improved substantially...

China's Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs) have performed remarkably well during the post-1979 period. However, agreement on their organizational and behavioral characteristics and the reasons for their success remains elusive. For some, TVEs are simply private enterprises in disguise and...