Purpose – This paper aims to explain why the quality of infrastructure projects in rural China differs from village to …/methodology/approach – Using primary data collected by the authors on three types of infrastructure projects in villages across China, they created …

The major objective of this paper is to discuss the development of rural labor markets in China during the past two … of women in labor markets by examining employment and migration trends and changes in wages. According to the data of our …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to quantify the implications of China's recently adopted agricultural policies … applied to address whether China's recent trade and production policies distort China's domestic and international commodity … increase China's production slightly, causing imports to decrease while exports decline because of input subsidies, export …

Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …

Purpose – This paper seeks to understand the evolution of financial intermediation in the course of China's economic … collaborators from a 1998 survey of financial institutions, enterprises, and government officials in southern China. Findings … – Based on an empirical investigation of rural financial reforms, it is argued that China's two-decade long financial reform …

The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China's colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high … tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education …

northwest China. Design/methodology/approach – Using hemoglobin (Hb) levels as the outcome variable, the authors first measure … itself, one of the policy implications of this study is that malnutrition is still a serious problem in China and it is worse …