Chinese rural household has been always facing credit constraints. Few institutions lend loans to farmers because of … agricultural productivity and rural household income and discuss some consequent policy implications. …

We estimate the demand for imported cotton in China and assess the competitiveness of cotton-exporting countries. Given … between the C4 countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali) and United States in China. Demand estimates are used to project … how U.S. prices affect China’s imports by country. In comparing demand projections, results show that the relationship …

This paper uses household data to assess the near-term impact of the program on incomes and activity choices of rural … retirement of farm land and the planting of saplings. We first look at the impact of program participation on household incomes … have contributed to re-shaping the structure of rural household production in a way that household labor supply is slowly …

In the estimation of aggregate meat demand systems, weak separability is often a maintained assumption. However, only a …

Linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand System (LA/AIDS). The empirical results indicate that beef imports in Korea would … capita consumption, demand, separability, and price elasticity. …

elicit farmers’ preferences. Demand is measured in terms of additional number of trees that a household is willing to plant …This paper determines the demand for a forestry program amongst rural households in western Kenya. It is based on a … new trees per household increases from 44 trees when farmers have to pay 10ksh/seedling, to 244 trees when farmers receive …

This paper develops an economic and econometric analysis of demand dynamics, with an application to US aggregate data … marginal benefits. The analysis uncovers strong statistical evidence of demand dynamics, especially for food. We find that the …