China's Poor Regions: Rural-Urban Migration, Poverty, Economic Reform and Urbanisation
ISBN: 9780203380833
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Area Studies; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Asian Studies; Economics; Chinese Studies; Development Economics;

The number of poor people in China is huge, despite recent economic advances. This book investigates the problem of poverty in China's regions, discussing in particular the role of rural-urban migration in reducing poverty. It surveys the distribution and characteristics of poverty, examines anti-poverty initiatives by the Chinese government and includes the results of original research conducted in Shanxi, a typical province in Central China.

Mei Zhang holds a PhD Degree from the University of Cambridge. Her main areas of work are women labour, rural-urban migration and poverty, urbanisation and quantitative analyses of urban environments.

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