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China underwent tremendous agricultural market reforms in the 1990s prior to its accession to the WTO, drastically …
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factors in Chinese grain production. Our results indicate that China might, at least in the short run, become a net …
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The objective of this research is to estimate the economic impact of climate change on tea production in China. We use … partial effect of specific weather factors on tea yields in China, with a specific focus on monsoon dynamics. We base our … for tea producer in China in the face of future global climate changes. …
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increasing concern about the potential negative effects of moving labor away from agriculture on China’s future food security … not much debate about the positive contribution of migration and local off-farm employment to China’s economy, there is an …. This is a critical issue as maintaining self-sufficiency in grain production will be critical for China to feed its huge …
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Small communities sometimes increase their local sales tax rate in order to maintain or expand public services. The question addressed here is what is the net effect of changing sales tax rates on revenues from sales taxes? Using both semiparametric and nonparametric regression, we find retail...
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urbanization in this region. Despite development, traditional agriculture still predominates. Changes in land use were examined …
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Access to public and private health insurance in rural areas of low income countries is severely constrained by high unit cost of transaction per contract due to information asymmetries between insurance sellers and buyers. This leads to a situation in which the majority of the poor have to rely...
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Are working-age rural migrants to urban areas really better off? This paper uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1979 to 1997 to answer this question. It builds on literature by Fisher (2005, 2007) on the role of unmeasured characteristics in influencing rural residential...
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The presentation deals with the quantification of villages' and rural communities' conditions. Distributing financial sources of rural development among the regions is not an easy task. The authors confirm the fact that the results of different methods used for quantifying conditions may be...
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