Cover December 27, 2008	[EDITORIALS] Where Is China Going? After 30 years of “reforms”, what has emerged in China is “capitalism with Chinese characteristics”.  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

During the epochs of revolution and reform in China over the past six decades, under what conditions have heightened inequality and perceptions of inequality translated into the discernment of inequity and the stimulus to challenge the order perpetua  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

There is considerable ferment over property rights in China today  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

This study analyses the impact of rural industrialisation in China on poverty and spatial inequality at the county level between 1982 and 2000  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

This paper traces China’s move towards a market economy in the mid-1980s, the near triumph of market forces in the 1990s, and the countermovement this engendered as inequalities between the rich and poor increased and social security networks collaps  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The 30 years of Chinese capitalistic “reforms” now exceeds the 29 years of socialist revolution under Mao. A “new” China has emerged, economically powerful, showcased by the Olympics and spurred by nationalistic sentiments  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

This tribute to the resilience of China’s migrant workers is by an academic who lived and worked among them in Shenzhen for seven months, sharing their screams and dreams  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Despite China’s dramatic transformation in the last three decades, its countryside is in a state of crisis  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The sustained and rapid growth of the Chinese economy in the last three decades has been in sharp contrast to the prolonged stagnation in most parts of the nonwestern world  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

In early December, the World Trade Organisation’s Director General Pascal Lamy, in yet another attempt to push the Doha round ahead, came up with new proposals on agriculture and industrial products  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The deaths of 35 Birhors – a “Primitive Tribal Group” – in Jharkhand in October and November 2008 have been ignored by the national media. Official apathy contributes to the vulnerability of such very poor tribal communities  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The availability of multiple data sources and new methods of estimation resulted in a more accurate estimate of the HIV population in India in 2006  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

The report of the IIM Review Committee has a very poorly defined purpose and approach. Some of the basic issues have been touched upon only superficially  [Abstract]  [Full Article]

Speaking Truth to Power: Religion, Caste and the Subaltern Question in India (Vol I) edited by Manu Bhagavan and Anne Eldhaus  [Abstract]  [Full Article]