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  China’s digital divide deepens

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  After years of explosive telecommunications growth, China now has the world’s highest number of both fixed and mobile phone connections and the second largest number of internet users. However, while prosperous cities have density rates of over 70 phones per 100 citizens, tens of thousands of villages in remote and poor regions lack a single phone.
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  Health equity in transition from planned to market economy in China

  Health Policy and Planning, 2002

  This paper, published in Health Policy and Planning, examines the impact of economic transition and health sector reform on health equities in the urban and rural populations of China in the 1990s. The analysis reveals that general mortality and infant mortality rates are decreasing in both urban and rural populations.
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  Globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets

  Bank for International Settlements, 2005

  This document is a compilation of papers dealing with the effects of financial integration on emerging markets. The compilation holds a number of background papers which explore general issues of globalisation and monetary policy in emerging markets.
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  Squeezing the farmers: taxation in rural China

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  While China's cities are growing economically, many rural areas are still very poor. Raising rural incomes is one of the most difficult challenges in modern China. Part of the problem is the unreasonably high financial demands made on rural people, for which they get little in return. This 'peasant burden' of heavy taxation and random fees has often resulted in social unrest in rural areas.
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  A new practice of labor organizing: community-based organization of migrant women workers in south China

  Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, 2004

  This paper looks the new forms of labour organizing and women empowerment, as China enters into global capitalism, particularly in the context of migrant women workers recruited into transnational corporations.The paper provides an analysis of the making of the new female worker-subject, Chinese dagongmei and evaluates whether the frontline projects of the Chinese Working Women Network (CWWN) c
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  Measuring the pace of water sector reform in Asia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Since the 2000 World Water Forum in The Hague, many governments have pledged to change their water policies. Reform is taking place in some Asian countries but not in others. What facilitates or hinders the reform process in individual countries? Are there common issues that can make sharing regional experiences useful?
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  id21 viewpoint - Getting to grips with development in rural China

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  The pace of China's rise as a global superpower often amazes visitors, with cities seeming to transform themselves overnight. However, this is only one side of modern China: most rural areas remain overwhelmingly poor. While urban development is undoubtedly important, the development of rural China is a far greater challenge.
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  Strategic gender interventions and poverty reduction: principles and practice

  Gender Mainstreaming Programme in Asia, 2004

  This manual has been developed to support the formulation and implementation of poverty reduction projects in Asia. It focuses on identifying strategic gender initiatives to help enhance women’s agency in the household and community.
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  An overview of glaciers, glacier retreat, and subsequent impacts in Nepal, India and China

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2005

  This paper exposes the rate of retreat of Himalayan glaciers accelerating as global warming increases. The report states that glaciers in the region are now receding at an average rate of 10-15 metres per year. There are several problems associated with retreating glaciers that need to be understood in order to proceed to the next stage of quantifying research and mitigating disaster.
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  Off-farm employment, factor market development and input use in farm production: a case study of a remote village in Jiangxi Province, China

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005

  The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of off-farm employment on village factor market development, and estimate the effects of off-farm employment on input use in farm production (especially inputs related to the change of land production capacity).The paper identifes four household groups which at group level show large differences in terms of household size, number of labourers

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