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THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL ON THE REGIONAL GROWTH AND COMPETITIVENESS IN POLAND

Bronisz, Urszula; Heijman, Wim J.M. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009

This article aims at presenting different approaches to the phenomenon of social capital. The concept of social capital is ambiguous and that is why we will highlight a number of definitions of this notion. The central attention of the paper focuses on the relationship between social capital and...

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Testing Porter's Hypothesis: A Stochastic Frontier Panel Data Analysis of Dutch Horticulture

van der Vlist, Arno; Withagen, Cees; Folmer, Henk - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

We propose a test of the Porter hypothesis for the Dutch horticulture sector, using a stochastic production frontier analysis allowing for an inclusion of policy variables to account for the effect of environmental policy of firm performance. We find considerable heterogeneity in the way firms...

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Does Market Orientation in Small-Scale farms pay off? A study of Innovation behaviour in Spanish agriculture

López-Mosquera, Natalia; Álvarez-Coque, José María … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

The paper underlines the importance of adopting a ‘market-orientation’ strategic approach in order to improve the performance of the firms, previously influenced by the ‘adoption of innovations’ of interest to the agricultural firms in two Spanish regions. The methodology selected has...

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Who gains and who loses from China’s growth?

Cheptea, Angela - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012

Recent trade evolutions credit China with a large and growing market potential, and explain the increasing … attractiveness of the Chinese market to foreign producers. In 2007 one tenth of internationally traded products were shipped to China …

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Evolution of Rural Financial Market in China: An Institutional "Lock in" or Gradualism?

Jia, Xiangping; Guo, Pei - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2007

Historically, China's political attempts to provide access to rural credit has met with mixed results and an … depression and many policy-driven financial institutions that dominated the rural financial system in China. More recently … find that there has been negligible progress in the evolution of the rural financial market in China. The policy …

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Labor Market Participation of Chinese Agricultural Households

Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; Wang, Xiaobing - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

This work is devoted to the analysis of the different labor market participation regimes of Chinese farm households. Using household data over the period 1986-2000 from the province Zhejiang, we apply a multinomial logit model to empirically examine household, farm, and regional characteristics...

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Water Saving Technology in Chinese Rice Production - Evidence from Survey Data

Abdulai, Awudu; Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005

Whereas water is an important input in rice production, China faces severe problems with increasing demand for water …

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Estimating the impact of transport efficiency on trade costs: Evidence from Chinese agricultural traders

Li, Zhigang; Yu, Xiaohua; Zeng, Yinchu - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

Using a unique survey data on agricultural traders in China in 2004, this study provides direct evidence on … within China are dominated by transport-related costs but not artificial barriers, approximated by tolls and fines; (2) Labor …

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Who Gains and Who Loses from China's Growth?

Cheptea, Angela - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

Emerging countries have been winning large market shares since the early 1990s. Among these, China stands out with the …

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Rational Expectation and Education Rewarding: The Case of Chinese Off-Farm Wage Employment

Hou, Linke; Wang, Xiaobing; Yu, Xiaohua - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2011

This study establishes a life-cycle model that a representative agent chooses optimal time of education to maximize his/her life earning, which implies that there may exist nonlinear relation between education and earning. Using the data of Chinese off-farm wage employment, we find that the...

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