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The Emergence of Chinese Civil Society and its Significance to Governance

Keeping the Political In (A Response to ‘Chinese Women, Gender and Sexuality’, W. Jankowiak)

Financing Health Care in Poor Rural Counties in China: Experience from a Township-Based Co-operative Medical Scheme

Published by: IDS

The economic reform programme in China, which started in the late 1970s, has had a major impact on rural health services.

The Changing Pattern of Poverty in China: Issues for Research and Policy

Published by: IDS

Under the Maoist regime, China was held up by many as a successful model of development, providing basic needs including primary health care and education to a large population at very low levels of income. Since reform, the country has again become a 'model' of poverty reduction through economic growth.

Health in Transition: Reforming China’s Rural Health Services

Published by: IDS

This issue of the IDS Bulletin asks whether China will be able to maintain cost-effective rural health services as it is transformed into a market economy. The papers were prepared as contributions to an intense debate underway in China.

Primary Health Care Meets the Market: Lessons from China and Vietnam

Published by: IDS

Many low and middle income countries are considering radical health sector reforms. Their policy-makers are asking fundamental questions about how services should be financed, the relationship between service providers and government, and the role of the state in ensuring that health services are cost-effective and equitable.

Coping with the Costs of Severe Illness in Rural China

Published by: IDS

This paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding how households cope with the costs of severe illness and high medical fees. It presents the findings of a follow-up study of a household health expenditure survey in rural China.

Health sector reform lessons from China

As a result of China's transition to a socialist market economy, its rural health services have undergone many of the changes commonly...

Intervention Study on Health Financing System in China’s Poor Rural Area

Published by: Shanghai Medical University Press

Surplus Labour and Productivity in Chinese Agriculture: Evidence from Household Survey Data

Published by: IDS

This paper investigates whether the concept of surplus labour adequately characterises the labour conditions facing rural Chinese households, and whether, therefore, it affects household labour allocation decisions.