Risk coping and starvation in rural China

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1341-1352

  Deininger, Klaus ^a   Jin, Songqing ^a   Yu, Xinhua ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b National Bureau of Statistics of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; STARVATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34447312171     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600592908     Document Type: Article

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