Impact of income growth and economic reform on nutrition availability in urban China: 1986-2000

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 261-295

  Meng, Xin ^a   Gong, Xiaodong ^a   Wang, Youjuan ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Chinese State Statistical Bureau

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ELASTICITY; ECONOMIC REFORM; INCOME; MAPPING; NUTRITION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 57749113700     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592838     Document Type: Article

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