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Nonparametric technical efficiency estimates of potentially polluting input use in soybean and wheat indicate substantial heterogeneity across farms. This implies large costs would be associated with uniform standards or incentives to regulate these inputs. While technical efficiency is not...
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Whether the high economic growth of China is sustainable is the matter of interest to the public, government and … academic circle of China and meanwhile it catches the attention of the world because the development of China has been exerting … increasing impact on the world economy. Since the high economic growth of China has been promoted by heavy and chemical industry …
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Replaced with revised version of paper 08/06/10.
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.g., pollution and a fishery). Prior work on managing these complex, linked systems generally focuses on efficiency rather than …
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profitability and reduce nitrogen pollution potential. …
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This paper addresses the challenges facing China in accelerating the pace of rural-urban migration as part of its on … lessons for China are offered from the different urbanisation experiences of Latin America (especially Colombia) and Singapore. …
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employs a unique natural experiment where some provincial governments in China liberalized migration policies for highly … provincial level employment data from the China Labor Statistical Yearbook. This paper found strong evidence that the HEHS labor … pool affected the location decision of food processing firms in China. The result supports recent literature that the food …
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believed to have significant effect on the rise of obesity in China. This paper analyses Body Mass Index (BMI) and overweight … issue of adults 18 years and above in urban China with respect to food eating locations and other socio-economic and …
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imbalance influences the venturing at the household level in China. We find that households with a son in more sex …
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of climate change on corn and soybean yields in China. Our results suggest the existence of nonlinear and asymmetric … study period has led to an economic loss of $220 million in 2009 alone in China’s corn and soybean sectors. Corn yields in … China are predicted to decrease by 2-5% under the slowest warming scenario and by 5-15% under the fastest warming scenario …
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