[PDF] Health And Education Reforms In Rural China eBook

Author : Li Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000740390

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China witnessed an unprecedented economic boom in the past four decades but will soon see the end of "demographic dividend". With shrinking labor, improving the quality of human capital could be one way to maintain China’s remarkable growth. The population in rural China accounts for 41% of the total population in China but the human capital development in rural China lags far behind the urban cities. This book selects four major reforms on education and health in rural China and evaluates the impact of these reforms on human capital development. Through rigorous econometric analysis, the book looks at factors of the rural-urban gap in human capital and the causal relationship between the reforms and the human capital development. This book will be a useful reference for developing economies which are facing similar issues in the labor market.

Author : Emily Hannum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135984700

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Transformative market reforms in China since the late 1970s have improved living standards dramatically, but have also led to unprecedented economic inequality. During this period, China’s educational system was restructured to support economic development, with educational reforms occurring at a startling pace. Today, the educational system has diversified in structure, finance, and content; it has become more market-oriented; and it is serving an increasingly diverse student population. These changes carry significant consequences for China’s social mobility and inequality, and future economic prospects. In Education and Reform in China, leading scholars in the fields of education, sociology, demography, and economics investigate the evolution of educational access and attainment, educational quality, and the economic consequences of being educated. Education and Reform in China shows that economic advancement is increasingly tied to education in China, even as educational services are increasingly marketized. The volume investigates the varying impact of change for different social, ethnic, economic and geographic groups. Offering interdisciplinary views on the changing role of education in Chinese society, and on China’s educational achievements and policy challenges, this book will be an important resource for those interested in education, public policy, and development issues in China.

Author : Xiaohuan Su
Publisher : 五洲传播出版社
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Adult education
ISBN : 9787801139931

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The chapters in this book consider the past and present of education in China, elementary education, vocational education, higher education, adult education, education for ethnic minorities, modern distance education, teacher education and teachers, international exchanges and cooperation, the education funding system, and the study of education as a science.

Author : Ofra Anson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1351156624

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This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, health behaviour and health care and the processes by which these came about. By exploring universal questions in the social, historical and political context of rural China, the authors advance our understanding of the social processes which shape the social distribution of health and health care, and draw policy implications for both post-industrial and developing societies. Using rural China as a case study, three main issues are addressed: The role of ideology, politics and economic processes in shaping access to health and health care for the rural population; The behaviour patterns of lay persons and health professionals and the degree to which they are influenced by specific social context; Patterns of health inequalities and the distribution of health services. The book will be a useful reference for students, researchers and policy makers with an interest in health care in developing as well as post-industrial societies.

Author : Lu Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811021201

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This book examines how educational change has progressed in three contrasting areas spread across China since 1990, exploring key issues concerning rural education in poor, rich and minority areas. Of the three areas covered in this book, the first is a rich one near Beijing; the second is in the northwest in Shanxi on the Loess plateau; and the third is in Sichuan on the high plateau leading to Tibet. Central issues include the impact of large-scale demographic change and migration, with increasing numbers of left-behind children in sending areas, and large increases in the numbers of inbound migrants in receiving areas; dramatic increases in the boarding of children in rural areas as a result of rural school merge; changing patterns of teacher deployment; recentralization of responsibilities for school financing; and growing concerns regarding horizontal and vertical inequalities in both access and participation.

Author : Eryong Xue
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 981198364X

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This book contextually explores the rural education reform in China from a policy mapping perspective. It discusses a wide range of topics in the context of China's rural areas, including rural school layout adjustment, rural teacher development, rural students' all-round education development, vocational education in rural areas, and rural education informatization development. With the challenges outlined and recommendations provided, the chapters offer a holistic view on China’s rural education reform. This book serves as a guide for scholars and researchers who are interested and work in research on China’s rural education reform, administrators, and stakeholders in China's education system and graduate students who major or minor in the field of rural educational policy.

Author : Gerard A. Postiglione
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317472349

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Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address these inequalities in a context of rapid social change, including the rise of an urban middle class, changed status of women, resurgence of ethnic identities, growing rural to urban migration, and lingering poverty in remote areas. But some argue that state policies have not sufficiently addressed inequitable practices, and that schools actually perpetuate and reproduce inequities, giving rise to a new system of social stratification driven more by market forces than socialist principles. Featuring all original, previously unpublished material, this volume examines this argument through analysis of selected aspects of educational stratification in China during the reform era. Chapters focus on the new urban middle class, poor rural residents, the migrant population in urban areas, rural girls, and ethnic minorities. The contributors are established scholars in the field, and they build a conceptual framework for assessing the degree to which China's educational reforms are inclusive, equitable, and integrative across social categories and groups.

Author : Dongping Han
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2007
Category : China
ISBN : 9788188401192

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"China's official history maintains that the radical egalitarianism of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) led to economic disaster. And when many people think of the Cultural Revolution (GPCR) they think of destruction and violence, red guard hooliganism, economic disruption, factional wars, violent army repression, closed schools, persecution of intellectuals, and ideological rigidity attacking people, buildings, and artwork. The Unknown Cultural Revolution (based on the author's doctoral dissertation) challenges that view and shows the other side of the GPCR. Drawing on local interviews and records in rural Jimo County, Shandong Province, this study contends that the GPCR caused the overthrow of the local hierarchy, the establishment of participatory democracy and economic planning in the communes, and a large expansion of public services (including social security for the aged) implemented by the newly empowered people of this county. The author documents substantial and rapid economic development resulting from these changes as well as from the consequences of expanding education. The author's village experience shows the potential of mass education and political empowerment of the masses to facilitate equitable rural development, and requires attention as testimony of the neglected, positive side of the Cultural Revolution." --back cover.

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0821379836

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Since 1978 when it embarked on sweeping agricultural and industrial reforms, China's economic growth has been remarkable. Its success in transforming itself within just three decades from a very poor low-income country to a successful middle-income country is unparalleled. During this period, however, and in contrast to the first 30 years of the People's Republic, progress in the health sector has been disappointing. For example, during the period 1980-2007, China increased its income per head as a percentage of the OECD average from 3 percent to 15 per cent, but infant mortality fell no faste.