Despite recent reductions in prevalence, China still faces a substantial tuberculosis (TB) burden, with future progress dependent on the ability of rural providers to appropriately detect and refer TB...
This contribution documents the effect of the global financial crisis on women's off-farm employment in China's rural labor force. It begins by comparing the difference between the actual off-farm employment...
Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the...
This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a national representative data set collected from across China, the paper finds that there...
This paper analyzes the political and institutional factors which are behind the dramatic changes in distortions to agricultural incentives in the transition countries in East Asia, Central Asia, and the...
Several studies addressing the supply and demand for food in China suggest that the nation can largely meet its needs in the coming decades. However, these studies do not consider the effects of climate...
The purpose of this paper is to present estimations of indicators of direct and indirect interventions of China's government in agriculture. The paper reviews China's experience with policy reforms since...
The purpose of this paper is to present estimations of indicators of direct and indirect interventions of China's government in agriculture. The paper reviews China's experience with policy reforms since...
Top Indian Incomes, 1922-2000 by Abhijit Banerjee and Thomas Piketty; Can We Discern the Effect of Globalization on Income Distribution? Evidence from Household Surveys by Branko Milanovic; Financing Pharmaceutical...
Researchers often use unit values (household expenditures on a commodity divided by the quantity purchased) as proxies for market prices when calculating poverty lines and estimating consumer demand equations...
This paper analyzes the linkages between the reform strategies in transition countries and economic performance. The authors focus on agriculture because of the sharpness of the policy changes, fundamental...
This article examines the impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on prices in its agricultural sector. The analysis uses a new methodology to estimate nominal protection rates...
China's accession to the World Trade Organization, policy reform, and poverty reduction : an introduction; by Deepak Bhattasali, Li Shantong, and Will Martin. Impacts of China's accession to the World...
In the Mao era, the employment status of women in China rose from one of the lowest in the world to one in which equality between men and women reached a level matched by few developing countries. Before...
This case study is one of six evaluations of the implementation of the World Bank's 1991 Forest Strategy. This and the other cases (Brazil, Cameroon, Costa Rica, India, and Indonesia) complement a review...
This report aims to identify and consolidate information on crucial issues that impact on rural development in China. China's rural economic achievements of the past two decades - rapid growth and declining...