Poverty in Guangdong -- Inequality in Guangdong -- Summary and policy implications -- How to evaluate a social assistance program -- Evolution and main policy features of rural Dibao in Guangdong -- Challenges faced by the Dibao program in Guangdong -- Labor market overview -- Barriers to a mobile and flexible labor market -- Policy implications -- The current situation -- Issues and problems -- Conclusions and summary of recommendations -- A new platform for pursuing bolder innovations -- Purpose of the note -- Rural land challenges -- Urban land challenges -- Key outcome gaps in compulsory education -- Spending gaps in compulsory education and the new free compulsory education scheme -- Preparing for change -- Meeting the challenge for skills development -- Governance -- Financing -- Non-state provision -- Market institutions -- School reforms -- The challenge of inequality and regional disparities -- Resource mobilization and allocation -- Improve the efficiency and equity of health protection schemes -- Strengthening the health services delivery capacity in the lagging areas.

xxxi, 356 p. : ill., charts, graphs

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Available also on the World Bank website (viewed 20 Jan. 2011).

9780821384848
9780821385012 (electronic)