Data in transition: Assessing rural living standards in Southern China

China Economic Review

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-56

  Chen, Shaohua ^a   Ravallion, Martin ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

C81; I32; P24

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030101130     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1043-951X(96)90018-8     Document Type: Article

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