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  • Information and Communications in the Chinese Countryside

    A Study of Three Provinces

    by Michael Minges, Kaoru Kimura, Natasha Beschorner, Robert Davies, Guanqing Zhang ...
    Series series World Bank Studies
    The report first summarizes the key findings from the following three studies in three provinces (Guizhou, Jilin, Shandong): (a) a demand survey to assess rural ICT access and attitudes; (b) a library study including scoping the status of ICT use in rural libraries; and (c) a limited impact evaluation to examine how ICT interventions have affected rural uers. Then the report addresses the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rural Informatization in China

    by Christina Zhen-Wei Qiang, Asheeta Bhavnani, Nagy Hanna, Kaoru Kimura, Randeep Sudan ...
    Series Book 172 - World Bank Working Papers
    China's recent economic growth has expanded industrialization and urbanization, upgraded consumption, increased social mobility, and initiated a shift from an agricultural-based economy to one based on services and industry. However, more than half of China's population still lives in rural areas, where the average per capital income is less than a third of the urban average. The government of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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