Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction
1: Setting the Stage
Part II. Rural-Urban Comparisons of Income
2: The Rural-Urban Income Divide: Macroeconomics
3: The Rural-Urban Income Divide: Microeconomics
Part III. Rural-Urban Comparisons of Welfare
4: Eduaction
5: Health
6: Housing
Part IV. The Movement of Factors
7: Rural-Urban Transfer of Capital
8: Rural-Urban Migration of Labour: Macroeconomics
9: Rural-Urban Migration of Labour: Microeconomics
Part V. Conclusions
10: Precis, Policy, and Perspective

Reviews

`invaluable insights into key areas of development'
The Royal Society for Asian Affairs
`This study must be the most comprehensive analysis ever written on the sources and scope of China's urban-rural gap.'
David Zweig, The Journal of Asian Studies
`This well-organized study ... Both China specialists and development econonmists will welcome this book for its straightforward, rigorous treatment of a critical contemporary issue.'
R.P. Gardella, Choice, Jul/Aug.00.