The Rural Education Action Program is part of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions.
Economic Affairs
Scholarly Publications
Complicating China’s Rise: Rural Underemployment
China’s economy has doubled in size every eight years since 1979, making it over 32 times bigger now then it was then and the second largest in the world today.1 Four decades of growth have ushered...
Moving Beyond Lewis: Employment and Wage Trends in China’s High- and Low-Skilled Industries and the Emergence of an Era of Polarization
October 2020
One of the defining features of China’s economy over the two decades between 1995 and 2015 was the persistent rise of wages for workers and professionals in nearly every segment of the economy—with...
Off the Epicenter: COVID-19 Quarantine Controls and Employment, Education, and Health Impacts in Rural Communities
October 2020
In late January 2020, China’s government initiated its first aggressive measures to combat COVID-19 by forbidding individuals from leaving their homes, radically limiting public transportation,...
News
Financial Times: China Must Pivot to Consumption-Led Growth or Risk Decline
June 2021
Author George Magnus, Research Associate at Oxford University’s China Centre, features research from Scott Rozelle in this Financial Times letter.
VoxChina: "Invisible China: Hundreds of Millions of Rural Underemployed May Slow China’s Growth"
June 2021
According to World Bank data, only a handful of economies have risen from middle to high income since 1960. But a large group of countries has remained middle income for decades, seemingly unable to...
Economist Global Business Review Lists 'Invisible China' in their article, Five Books You Shouldn't Miss This Year | Editor-in-Chief Recommendations
April 2021
The Economist Global Business Review listed the Invisible China as one of the five notable books in 2021. This list is made by the editors from the Economist for the World Reading Day (April 23, 2021...
Events
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise — Book Launch Event
September 15, 2020
This event will take place on Zoom.
Human Capital and Labor Market of China
February 17, 2016
9:30-12:00 Session 1: Inequality of Human Capital and Labor Market OutcomesLocation: Goldman Conference Room, Encina Hall East (4th floor) The Health and Nutrition Roots of China's Human Capital...
The Real China Threat: Why Might We Need to Worry About a Stagnating China?
May 22, 2012
Stanford Center for International Development Twelfth Annual Huang Lian Memorial LectureThe Real China Threat: Why Might We Need to Worry About a Stagnating China?
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