Selections from papers presented at the international symposium on "China's Rural Economy: Problems and Strategies," organized by the Chinese Economists Society in Hangzhou, China on June 25-27, 2004.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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China's rural economy after WTO: problems and strategies / Shunfeng Song and Aimin Chen -- 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 Sicular and Xian Xin -- The poverty of rights and Chinese farmers' 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 the rural-urban income gap solely responsible? / Gene H. Chang -- Economic openness, local governance and rural economy / Ding Lu -- Characteristics of rural-urban migrants: the case of Tianjin, China / Zhigang Lu and Shunfeng Song -- Choices between different off-farm employment sub-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 the 1990s / Yuyu Chen and Chunbing Xing -- Economic conditions and urbanization: comparing five Chinese provinces / Aimin Chen -- 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 government indebtedness in China: what is the role for the municipal government bond market? / Ligang Liu and 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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book discusses and analyzes China's rural sector problems in detail, including the areas of poverty, income inequality, the gender gap, barriers of rural-urban migration, discrimination against rural workers and the risks under WTO.