China's Rural Economy After Wto

by Song, Shunfeng; Chen, Aimin

• ISBN13: 9780754646952
• ISBN10: 0754646955
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
List of Contributors	xii
Introduction
China's Rural Economy after WTO: Problems and Strategies	3	(8)
Shunfeng Song
Aimin Chen
Part 1 Gender Inequality in Rural Areas
Gender Inequalities and Rural Development: Some Neglected and Hidden Dimensions	11	(18)
Bina Agarwal
Women's Status in The Household in Rural China: Does Market Labor Matter?	29	(30)
Fiona MacPhail
Xiao-Yuan Dong
China's Rural Labor Market Development and its Gender Implications	59	(21)
Scott Rozelle
Linxiu Zhang
Alan de Brauw
Rising Gender Gap in Non-Agricultural Employment in Rural China	80	(15)
Xiaoyun Liu
Terry Sicular
Xian Xin
Part 2 Poverty and Income Inequalities
The Poverty of Rights and Chinese Farmers' Land Property	95	(20)
Zhaohui Hong
Accounting for Income Inequality in Rural China: A Regression-based Approach	115	(19)
Guanghua Wan
Decomposition of China's Rising Income Inequality: Is the Rural-Urban Income Gap Solely Responsible?	134	(7)
Gene H. Chang
Economic Openness, Local Governance and Rural Economy	141	(18)
Ding Lu
Part 3 Rural-Urban Migration
Characteristics of Rural-Urban Migrants: The Case of Tianjin, China	159	(17)
Zhigang Lu
Shunfeng Song
Choices between Different Off-farm Employment Sub-Categories: An Empirical Analysis for Jiangxi Province, China	176	(21)
Xiaoping Shi
Nico Heerink
Futian Qu
Urban-Rural Hukou Differentials in China's Labor Relations	197	(14)
Xianguo Yao
Puqing Lai
Human Capital, Rural Industrialization and China's Labor Market in the 1990s	211	(21)
Yuyu Chen
Chunbing Xing
Economic Conditions and Urbanization: Comparing Five Chinese Provinces	232	(29)
Aimin Chen
Part 4 The Role of Government in Rural Development
The Caring Hand of a Local Government in China	261	(14)
Wenbo Wu
Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development in Rural China	275	(13)
Shenggen Fan
Xiaobo Zhang
Local Government Indebtedness in China: What is the Role for the Municipal Government Bond Market?	288	(22)
Ligang Liu
Shaoqiang Chen
Fiscal Decentralization and Political Centralization in China: Implications for Regional Inequality	310	(15)
Xiaobo Zhang
On the Institutional Arrangements of Farmer Cooperatives in China	325	(11)
Zuhui Huang
Xu-chu Xu
Yu Song
Government Regulations, Legal-Soft-Constraint and Rural Grassroots Democracy in China	336	(22)
Qi Zhang
Mingxing Liu
Wei Shan
Index	358