[Nicholas Loubere](https: //portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/persons/nicholas-loubere(071dc3f5-b9a4-4762-b13c-3490428ce1dc).html) is an Associate Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern China at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. His research examines socioeconomic development in rural China, with a particular focus on microcredit and migration