Using cities to control the countryside: An alternative assessment of the China National Human Development Report 2013

Development and Change

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 993-1009

  Muldavin, Joshua ^a  

^a SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; POPULATION GROWTH; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84943249981     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dech.12178     Document Type: Article

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