In March 2006, China's National People's Congress officially promulgated the central government's intention to "build a new socialist countryside", a new policy initiative and approach to rural development. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in two Chinese counties in 2008 and 2009, this article ...
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America is on a dangerous path. It’s easy to forget how lucky we are. We’re not a perfect community — there are no perfect communities. We’re not one happy family — we’re millions of families, some of them quite unhappy. There are tensions; there are problems; there’s some ...
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. —John Boyd Orr 45 In their seminal work, ...
Because these are children from the bottom of the social pile, whose lives have been given a new direction by an approach to schooling that could soon be making its mark on this side of the Atlantic. This thinking refuses to accept poverty as an excuse for failure, and says that, with ...
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in two Chinese counties inand , this article investigates how the new policy is being substantiated and implemented at the local level. It argues that by combining Chinas new fiscal system of transfer payments to poor local governments with administrative reforms, ...