...Yang Liu; Mi Zhou; Quansheng Li Purpose This paper explores how rural e-commerce drives consumption in both urban and rural residents; further, it presents evidence from the perspective of e-commerce penetration in rural areas and among farmers to assess the contribution of e-commerce to China’s...

...Xiaofeng Li; Li Luo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to exam the relationship between migration patterns and migrant workers' consumption and study how to upgrade the consumption of migrant workers. Design/methodology/approach Based on survey data from 3,368 migrant workers in China...

... the determinants and consumption behavior of middle class in rural China. Findings Major findings include: in 2007, as many as 398 million rural residents or almost 54 percent of China's rural population belonged to the middle class; the size estimate of China's rural middle class based on income is broadly...

.... Originality/value This is the first paper employing a health production theory on China's new urban and rural healthcare programs. We assume W is quasiconcave in c and m to satisfy the conditions for an interior solution, and denote the optimal choice of the consumption good...

...David L. Ortega; H. Holly Wang; James S. Eales Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough analysis of meat demand in China and predict future trends in meat consumption. Design/methodology/approach Expenditure as well as Marshallian and Hicksian demand elasticities of various...

... of income on consumption, production expenditures is evaluated. The econometric models used in this study include logit, tobit and ordinary least squares models. Findings It is found that remittances increase nondurable consumption, but not as much as local wages and that there is no difference...