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Book Chapter
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From the book:
Tasks, Skills, and Institutions
Book Chapter
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– Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in China
From the book:
The Developer’s Dilemma
– A case study of social mobility research in the Global South
Part of Journal Special Issue
Social mobility in developing countries
Journal Article
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– Evidence from the Han and ethnic minorities in China
This study investigates the unexpected impact that enforcing birth control policies in China has upon the educational stratification between the Han majority, the policy target group, and ethnic minorities, a partially excluded group. Exploring county-level variation in the value of fines levied for...
Book Chapter
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– Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
From the book:
Inequality in the Developing World
Book Chapter
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– Structural change, transition, rent-seeking and corruption, and government policy
From the book:
Inequality in the Developing World
Journal Article
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Income inequalities and redistribution in China
Journal Article
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– Data collection and the impact on income inequality
Part of Journal Special Issue
Income inequalities and redistribution in China
Journal Article
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Income inequalities and redistribution in China
Journal Article
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– A comparative approach with India
Part of Journal Special Issue
Income inequalities and redistribution in China
Journal Article
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– 1988-2013
Part of Journal Special Issue
Income inequalities and redistribution in China
Journal Article
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Part of Journal Special Issue
Income inequalities and redistribution in China
Journal Article
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Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
– Can South African firms compete with Chinese imports?
China’s growing edge in export manufacturing has caused concern for low-income and middle-income countries seeking to develop robust manufacturing sectors. China’s recent transition from an exporter of lower-tech goods, such as garments, to more advanced products, such as components for high-tech...
Journal Article
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– The Impacts of China's Informal Gold Rush in Ghana
Part of Journal Special Issue
Migration Governance and Policy in the Global South
– Correcting the data on top incomes in China
China has experienced fast economic growth over the last forty years. The number of Chinese billionaires has grown exceptionally fast and their wealth has increased enormously. At the same time, official statistics report decreasing inequality over the most recent decade. However, correcting data...
From an international perspective, growth in average wages has been very impressive in urban China during recent decades. Average wages were about ten times as high in 2013 as in 1988. But how has wage inequality evolved during this period? Wage inequality increased rapidly in urban China during...
From the book:
Towards Gender Equity in Development
Journal Article
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– a potential indicator of health-care quality in China
Part of Journal Special Issue
Measuring quality of care
Book Chapter
From the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2.
Research Brief
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The global food crisis in 2007–08 raised concerns everywhere, including in China. However, despite China’s highly-integrated domestic and international markets for many agricultural commodities, the effect of the crisis in China was only moderate. The government’s responses and countermeasures to...
Journal Article
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Land and Property Rights
Book Chapter
From the book:
Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability
Book Chapter
From the book:
Falling Inequality in Latin America
Research Brief
China is the world’s largest developing country and its huge population requires a similarly large agricultural sector to sustain it. A major challenge for China faces is working out how increasing demands for food can be met at the same time as reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Despite the...
Book Chapter
– An Interpretation of China's Economic Success in the Reform Era
From the book:
Achieving Development Success
Book Chapter
– Impact on Waste Scavenging in Developing Countries
From the book:
Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
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