agreements, usually at predetermined prices for the production and supply of agricultural products (Eaton and Shepherd 2001). As … such, it offers a solution to a number of production and marketing problems that lead to low farm productivity and … how contract growing can address various marketing and production problems in the farm sector. This is demonstrated in …

The demand for environmental goods is often low in developing countries. The major causes are awareness regarding the …

Many developing countries are re-orienting their production and marketing systems by linking local agri-producers with … production frontier and technical inefficiency effects model using survey data of 800 dairy households. While location of dairy …

The paper sets out what has been driving Chinese demand for resources and outlines the main features of the growth of … Chinese resource demand. It reviews the potential to supply Chinese resource (and in particular, iron ore) demand and looks at … some policy questions that confront China, as a major resource-procuring economy seeking resource security through foreign …

The paper briefly sets out factors behind Chinese demand for iron ore imports and the main features of China’s medium …, medium and high risk) are constructed for 17 iron ore mines (over 27 production expansion phases) in west and central African …

economy and political power. In the last twenty five years the economy of China, a nation of 1.3 billion, has grown by a … almost half of the world output and more than half world trade, with China accounting for half of that. In 2010, Chinaâ …

This article analyses the motivation and impact of the 2009 intervention of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA …

€™s Republic of China (PRC), one of the important major assembly bases, confirms the existence of international production sharing …Empirical evidence suggests that the emergence of international production networks in East Asia results from market …-driven forces such as vertical specialization and higher production costs in the home countries and institutional-led reasons such …

-level export performance in Asia’s super exporter—The People’s Republic of China (PRC). While early studies suggested that …