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By:Zuo Changsheng
Publication Date:2017-11-01
While China enjoys the distinction of being the first country to have achieved the millennium development goals, the country faces many problems and challenges, including staggering income inequality, continuing poverty among some population and difficulties in realizing sus...
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By:Li Youmei
Publication Date:2019-02-01
The book offers a systematic account of the whats, the whys and the hows of China’s Internet Plus Initiative. It looks at the impact of the Internet on the functions and the regional economic spillover effect of cities, the integration of the Internet with traditional industri...
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By:Chen Lijun
Publication Date:2017-11-28
Among the many studies on the situation of children in China, few provide a full picture of their living conditions. This book fills that lacuna, using data from national household surveys. The data cover child development, physical health, mental and psychological well-being, an...
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By:Ye Jingzhong
Publication Date:2017-11-27
This volume is a collection of lectures given at College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University by invited speakers on a wide range of topics related to agriculture and development. Speakers come from diverse academic disciplines, including sociol...
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By:Wang Xiaolin
Publication Date:2017-11-27
In this book the author looks at how the concept of “poverty” has evolved over the years, changes in the criteria for setting the poverty line, and poverty around the world. The discussions pay special attention to methodological issues related to quantitative measure...
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By:Li Peilin
Publication Date:2017-10-27
First published in 1993, Blue Book of China’s Society, an annual report on social development in China, saw its 25th volume released in 2016. The annual reports have received critical acclaim for its consistently high-quality analyses on all aspects of social conditions and...