Great changes have taken place in China’s agricultural and food markets in the past several decades. However, the … impact of the transformation brought by modern supply chains on the welfare of farmers in China is unclear. This paper … attempts to understand whether or not the recent changes in China’s food economy have contributed to an improvement in the …

The overall goal of the paper is to understand the progress of the implementation of China’s New Cooperative Medical …

Although health is an important factor in economic development, millions of China's rural residents have no medical … coverage. Nearly 10 percent of those that were sick in rural China consciously did not seek medical care, mostly because of … deteriorating situation, a new cooperative medical system (NCMS) was initialized in rural China in 2003 by the government. However …

The major objective of this paper is to discuss the development of rural labor markets in China during the past two …

The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …