Unequal migration and urbanisation gains in China

Urbanisation and health in China.

China has seen the largest human migration in history, and the country's rapid urbanisation has important consequences for public health. A provincial analysis of its urbanisation trends shows shifting and accelerating rural-to-urban migration across the country and accompanying rapid increases in city size and population. The growing disease burden in urban areas attributable to nutrition and ...

What Matters in the Urbanisation of China?

This study reveals the characteristics of urbanisation in China, which has started as a comprehensive socio-economic plan since 2014. It examines the ongoing urbanisation process from the perspectives of history, the size of city, village urbanisation and costs and benefits of the settlement of rural migrants in cities. The study argues that urbanisation in China is characterised by not only ‘s...

Migration and Urbanisation in São Paulo: The New Scenario

Migration: Who Gains, Who Loses

Arvind Panagariya Analytically as well as politically, migration is a more complex phenomenon than international trade. The latter involves two-way flows of goods and services that allow the real aggregate income to grow in each country involved. Therefore, the arguments for protection against imports typically rest on the detrimental effects on the income distribution or the existence of prior...

Does large-sized cities' urbanisation predominantly degrade environmental resources in China? Relationships between urbanisation and resources in Changjiang Delta Region