ShiftingWealth: China´s Arrival Cities May Stop Growing. Over the last 30 years, China has witnessed the largest migration in history.
According to China´s 2010 Census, almost 1/4 trn migrants had worked away from home for more than six month that year. Preparing a longer China mission for GIZ, the German development agency, I just stumbled over a great info video put up by The Economist that displays the volume, benefits and costs of China´s internal migration masterfully: try it out! There is little doubt the beneficial impact that China´s internal mass migration has produced, despite the increase in interregional and interpersonal inequality it has brought along - a temporarily rising inequality if we trust Kuznets (1955) . Sustained growth and poverty reduction, especially in poor dual-economy countries, usually requires a shift of resources from low productivity to higher productivity activities, from raw materials to manufactures, from rural to urban areas. China: The largest migration in history.
Path to riches is paved through cities. Updated: 2012-05-25 08:27 By Kam Wing Chan (China Daily) Urbanization could unlock prosperity but household registration system needs reform Last year marked a milestone in China's several-thousand-year history: for the first time, more people lived in cities and towns than in the countryside.
The country's 690 million urban dwellers now account for 51.3 percent of China's total population of 1.35 billion. China's recent urban transition is definitely a historic event of global importance. In 2012, China's urbanization landmark has assumed even more significance for the global economy. Not surprisingly, China has played a major role in that scenario of Asian consumer growth. Yet internally, going forward, China continues to face the problems of re-balancing its economy, away from its heavy reliance on investment and exports to domestic consumption. China's urbanization has fascinated observers for generations, but misinterpretations and mis-prognostications abound. General Reading. Settlement Intention and Split Households. Household Investment through Migration in Rural China.
Social security for China's migrant workers - WANG - 2011 - International Labour Review. Causes and Consequences of Return Migration: Recent Evidence from China. Share: MyIDEAS: Login Fourni par Traduction Abstract No abstract is available for this item.
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