Rural Urban Migration And Agro Technological Change In Post Reform China

Author : Lena Kaufmann
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048552184

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Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China by Lena Kaufmann Pdf

How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and value. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, this book describes farming households' strategic solutions to this predicament. It shows how, in light of rural-urban migration and agro-technological change, they manage to sustain both migration and farming. It innovatively conceives rural households as part of a larger farming community of practice that spans both staying and migrating household members and their material world. Focusing on one exemplary resource - paddy fields - it argues that socio-technical resources are key factors in understanding migration flows and migrant-home relations. Overall, this book provides rare insights into the rural side of migration and farmers' knowledge and agency.

Author : Gordon McGranahan,Cecilia Tacoli
Publisher : IIED
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 9781843696179

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Rural-urban Migration in China by Gordon McGranahan,Cecilia Tacoli Pdf

Author : Mei Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134356966

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China's Poor Regions by Mei Zhang Pdf

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.

Author : Harry X. Wu,Zhou Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : China
ISBN : UCSC:32106014508821

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Research on Rural-to-urban Labour Migration in the Post-reform China by Harry X. Wu,Zhou Li Pdf

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464802065

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Urban China by World Bank Pdf

In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development leads to urban sprawl and ghost towns, pollution threatens people’s health, and farmland and water resources are becoming scarce. With China’s urban population projected to rise to about one billion – or close to 70 percent of the country’s population – by 2030, China’s leaders are seeking a more coordinated urbanization process. Urban China is a joint research report by a team from the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council which was established to address the challenges and opportunities of urbanization in China and to help China forge a new model of urbanization. The report takes as its point of departure the conviction that China's urbanization can become more efficient, inclusive, and sustainable. However, it stresses that achieving this vision will require strong support from both government and the markets for policy reforms in a number of area. The report proposes six main areas for reform: first, amending land management institutions to foster more efficient land use, denser cities, modernized agriculture, and more equitable wealth distribution; second, adjusting the hukou household registration system to increase labor mobility and provide urban migrant workers equal access to a common standard of public services; third, placing urban finances on a more sustainable footing while fostering financial discipline among local governments; fourth, improving urban planning to enhance connectivity and encourage scale and agglomeration economies; fifth, reducing environmental pressures through more efficient resource management; and sixth, improving governance at the local level.

Author : Caspar Barlaeus
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048540020

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The Wise Merchant by Caspar Barlaeus Pdf

On 9 January 1632, at the inauguration of the Amsterdam Illustrious School - the predecessor of the city's university - Caspar Barlaeus delivered a speech that has continued to arouse the curiosity of researchers and the general public alike: *Mercator sapiens*. This famous oration on the wise merchant is now considered a key text of the Dutch Golden Age. At the same time it is surrounded by misunderstandings regarding Barlaeus himself, the nascent Illustrious School and Amsterdam's merchant culture. This volume presents the first English translation and the first critical edition of the *Mercator sapiens*, preceded by an introduction providing historical context and a fresh interpretation of this intriguing text.

Author : Silvia M. Lindtner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780691179483

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Prototype Nation by Silvia M. Lindtner Pdf

A vivid look at China’s shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototype Nation offers a rich transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China’s governance and global image. With historical precision and ethnographic detail, Silvia Lindtner reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007–8, shaped the rise of the global maker movement and the vision of China as a “new frontier” of innovation. Lindtner’s investigations draw on more than a decade of research in experimental work spaces—makerspaces, coworking spaces, innovation hubs, hackathons, and startup weekends—in China, the United States, Africa, Europe, Taiwan, and Singapore, as well as in key sites of technology investment and industrial production—tech incubators, corporate offices, and factories. She examines how the ideals of the maker movement, to intervene in social and economic structures, served the technopolitical project of prototyping a “new” optimistic, assertive, and global China. In doing so, Lindtner demonstrates that entrepreneurial living influences governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexism, racism, colonialism, and labor exploitation. Prototype Nation shows that by attending to the bodies and sites that nurture entrepreneurial life, technology can be extricated from the seemingly endless cycle of promise and violence. Cover image: Courtesy of Cao Fei, Vitamin Creative Space and Sprüth Magers

Author : Giacomo Bonanno,Wiebe Hoek,Michael J. Wooldridge
Publisher : Leiden University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9089640266

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Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT 7) by Giacomo Bonanno,Wiebe Hoek,Michael J. Wooldridge Pdf

This volume is a collects papers originally presented at the 7th Conference on Logic and the Foundations of Game and Decision Theory (LOFT), held at the University of Liverpool in July 2006. LOFT is a key venue for presenting research at the intersection of logic, economics, and computer science, and this collection gives a lively and wide-ranging view of an exciting and rapidly growing area.

Author : L. Augustin-Jean,B. Alpermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137277954

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The Political Economy of Agro-Food Markets in China by L. Augustin-Jean,B. Alpermann Pdf

China's agricultural production and food consumption have increased tremendously, leading to a complete evolution of agro-food markets. The book is divided into two parts; the first part reviews the theoretical framework for the 'social construction of the markets,' while the second part presents the implication for the agro-food markets in China.

Author : Ashok Gulati,Shenggen Fan
Publisher : International Food Policy Research Insitute
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015073866769

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The Dragon and the Elephant by Ashok Gulati,Shenggen Fan Pdf

Comparative analyses across themes of particular relevance to rural development, such as land reforms, human and social development, public investment, agricultural research and development, irrigation and the water sector, domestic agricultural marketing, liberalization of agricultural trade, and rural and agricultural diversification, the rural nonfarm sector, and antipoverty programmes and safety nets. Covers the period 1950-2004.

Author : Duncan McDuie-Ra
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089644220

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Northeast Migrants in Delhi by Duncan McDuie-Ra Pdf

The Northeast border region of India is a crossroads of Southeast Asia, where India meets China and the Himalayas, and home to many ethnic minorities from across the continent. The area is also the birthplace of a number of secessionist and insurgent movements and a hotbed of political fervor and violent instability. In this trailblazing new study, Duncan McDuie-Ra observes the everyday lives of the thousands of men and women who leave the region every year to work, study, and find refuge in Delhi. He examines how new migrants navigate the rampant racism, harassment, and even violence they face upon their arrival in Delhi. But McDuie-Ra does not paint them simply as victims of the city, but also as contributors to Delhi's vibrant community and increasing cosmopolitanism. India's embrace of globalization has created employment opportunities for Northeast migrants in many capitalistic enterprises: shopping malls, restaurants, and call centers. They have been able to create their own “map” of Delhi and their own communities within the larger and often unfriendly one of the metropolis.

Author : Fran Martin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022220

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Dreams of Flight by Fran Martin Pdf

In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial pressures of the post-Mao era push them back toward marriage and family by age thirty. Martin examines these women’s motivations for studying in Australia and traces their embodied and emotional experiences of urban life, social media worlds, work in low-skilled and professional jobs, romantic relationships, religion, Chinese patriotism, and changed self-understanding after study abroad. Martin illustrates how emerging forms of gender, class, and mobility fundamentally transform the basis of identity for a whole generation of Chinese women.

Author : Chris Bramall,Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Studies Chris Bramall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199275939

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The Industrialization of Rural China by Chris Bramall,Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Studies Chris Bramall Pdf

'The Industrialization of Rural China' highlights the economic & social achievements of the Maoist regime. Using a constructed dataset covering China's 2000 plus counties & complemented by a detailed econometric study of county-level industrialization in the provinces of Sichuan, Guangdong & Jiangsu, the author shows that history mattered.

Author : Iom International Organization For Migration
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Asia
ISBN : 817188573X

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Migration, Development and Poverty Reduction in Asia by Iom International Organization For Migration Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Rural development
ISBN : CORNELL:31924058999727

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Abstracts on Rural Development in the Tropics by Anonim Pdf