Rural Development in Arid Regions: The Case of Xinjiang

Keith Griffin
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Keith Griffin: Magdalen College

Chapter 6 in World Hunger and the World Economy, 1987, pp 147-182 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the largest administrative unit in China. It covers a vast area of 1.6 million square kilometres, or 16.7 per cent of China’s territory. That is, it is larger than the combined size of France, West Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Denmark. The population, however, is small — less than 14 million people live in the region or 1.3 per cent of China’s population — and consequently population density is very low, at just under nine persons per square kilometre.

Keywords: Arid Region; Rural Development; Tarim Basin; Gini Coefficient; Poor Household (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18739-3_6

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