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Feeding China

China's approach to feeding its 22 per cent of the world population has varied considerably during the 36 years of the People's Republic, and so have the results. In the late 1970s its leadership began repudiating much of the country's earlier...

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New Light on China’s Rural Elites

This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China using household data for 1995 and 2002. We seek to understand the determinants of belonging to each of the three elite categories...

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Individual and Collective Resources and Health in Morocco

The interaction between available individual and collective resources in the determination of health is largely ignored in the literature on the relationship between poverty and health in developing countries. We analyse the role public resources...

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Household Vulnerability and Resilience to Economic Shocks: Findings from Melanesia
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9 December 2013 Simon Feeny Vulnerability and resilience are very closely related terms. Vulnerability is usually referred to as the likelihood of...

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Feeding China

Part of Book The Political Economy of Hunger

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Feeding China

Part of Book The Political Economy of Hunger

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Individual and Collective Resources and Women's Health in Morocco

Part of Book Health Inequality and Development

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New Light on China's Rural Elites

Part of Book The Role of Elites in Economic Development

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