Contents: Introduction: China's rural economy after WTO: problems and strategies, Shunfeng Song and Aimin Chen. Gender Inequality in Rural Areas: Gender inequalities and rural development: some neglected and hidden dimensions, Bina Agarwal; Women's status in the household in rural China: does market labour matter?, Fiona MacPhail and Xiao-Yuan Dong; China's rural laboru market development and its gender implications, Scott Rozelle, Linxiu Zhang and Alan De Brauw; Rising gender gap in non-agricultural employment in rural China, Xiaoyun Liu, Terry Sicular and Xian Xin. Poverty and Income Inequalities: The poverty of rights and Chinese farmer's land property, Zhaohui Hong; Accounting for income inequality in rural China: a regression-based approach, Guanghua Wan; Decomposition of China's rising income inequality: is the rural-urban income gap solely responsible?, Gene H. Chang; Economic openness, local governance and rural economy, Ding Lu. Rural-Urban Migration: Characteristics of rural-urban migrants: the case of Tianjin, China, Zhigang Lu and Shunfeng Song; Choices between different off-farm employment sub-categories: an empirical analysis for Jiangxi Province, China, Xiaoping Shi, Nico Heerink and Futian Qu; Urban-rural Hukou differentials in China's labour relations, Xianguo Yao and Puqing Lai; Human capital, rural industrialization and China's labour market in the 1990s, Yuyu Chen and Chunbing Xing; Economic conditions and urbanization: comparing five Chinese Provinces, Aimin Chen. The Role of Government in Rural Development: The caring hand of a local government in China, Wenbo Wu; Infrastructure and regional economic development in rural China, Shenggen Fan and Xiaobo Zhang; Local Ggvernment indebtedness in China: what is the role for the municipal government bond market?, Ligang Liu and Shaoqiang Chen; Fiscal decentralization and political centralization in China: implications for regional inequality, Xiaobo Zhang; On the institutional arrangem
