China's Rural Economy after WTO: Problems And Strategies (The Chinese Economy Series)

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 13
Introduction......Page 16
1 China’s Rural Economy after WTO: Problems and Strategies......Page 18
Part 1 Gender Inequality in Rural Areas......Page 24
2 Gender Inequalities and Rural Development: Some Neglected and Hidden Dimensions......Page 26
3 Women’s Status in The Household in Rural China: Does Market Labor Matter?......Page 44
4 China’s Rural Labor Market Development and its Gender Implications......Page 74
5 Rising Gender Gap in Non-Agricultural Employment in Rural China......Page 95
Part 2 Poverty and Income Inequalities......Page 108
6 The Poverty of Rights and Chinese Farmers’ Land Property......Page 110
7 Accounting for Income Inequality in Rural China: A Regression-based Approach......Page 130
8 Decomposition of China’s Rising Income Inequality: Is the Rural-Urban Income Gap Solely Responsible?......Page 149
9 Economic Openness, Local Governance and Rural Economy......Page 156
Part 3 Rural-Urban Migration......Page 172
10 Characteristics of Rural-Urban Migrants: The Case of Tianjin, China......Page 174
11 Choices between Different Off-farm Employment Sub-Categories: An Empirical Analysis for Jiangxi Province, China......Page 191
12 Urban-Rural Hukou Differentials in China’s Labor Relations......Page 212
13 Human Capital, Rural Industrialization and China’s Labor Market in the 1990s......Page 226
14 Economic Conditions and Urbanization: Comparing Five Chinese Provinces......Page 247
Part 4 The Role of Government in Rural Development......Page 274
15 The Caring Hand of a Local Government in China......Page 276
16 Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development in Rural China......Page 290
17 Local Government Indebtedness in China: What is the Role for the Municipal Government Bond Market?......Page 303
18 Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China: Implications for Regional Inequality......Page 325
19 On the Institutional Arrangements of Farmer Cooperatives in China......Page 340
20 Government Regulations, Legal-Soft-Constraint and Rural Grassroots Democracy in China......Page 351
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