Two-tier land tenure system and sustained economic growth in post-1978 rural China

World Development

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 915-928

  Dong, Xiao Yuan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; LAND TENURE; LAND TENURE SYSTEM; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL REFORM; TWO-TIER SYSTEM;

CHINA;

EID: 0030445402     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(96)00010-1     Document Type: Article

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