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Original Articles

Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization and Undocumented Labour Mobility in Rural China, 1982–87

Pages 1469-1482 | Received 15 Oct 2012, Accepted 14 Dec 2014, Published online: 18 May 2015

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