Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate determinants of regional disparities in China's agricultural labor productivity growth. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first decomposes the regional disparity in China's agricultural productivity growth into its components:...

Purpose – The Chinese government has increasingly turned to industry policy as a means of promoting rural development. These industry policies have not necessarily led to an improvement in rural incomes nor to the achievement of other social and environmental goals. This paper examines ways of...