Although health is an important factor in economic development, millions of China's rural residents have no medical … coverage. Nearly 10 percent of those that were sick in rural China consciously did not seek medical care, mostly because of … deteriorating situation, a new cooperative medical system (NCMS) was initialized in rural China in 2003 by the government. However …

The overall goal of the paper is to understand the progress of the implementation of China’s New Cooperative Medical … are still weaknesses. Most importantly, the program clearly does not meet its goal of providing insurance against …

Recent academic discussion regarding crop insurance in developing and transition countries has focused on weather index … insurance. But empirical analyses of such schemes based on farm level data cannot be found in the literature, though this … insurance type shows clear advantages compared to multiple-peril crop insurance and revenue insurance. Recent empirical …

through a hypothetical insurance scheme. The study is based on data from a survey conducted on a purposive sample of 300 … insurance scheme. Also, the farmers observed that the scheme would enable them to increase their herd sizes and change their … cattle insurance scheme; and economic empowerment of both male and female farmers to encourage adoption of the scheme, as …

The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …

The rapidly growing beef cattle herd of the Peoples Republic of China is largely carried as small numbers of animals on … south-central China. An economic model and a synthetic case example of a smallholder farm enterprise are used to briefly …

This paper investigates the role of infrastructure capital in China’s regional economic development during 1990 to 2009 … land-line telephone. The results support a positive role of infrastructure in improving economic wellbeing in China. It … shows that infrastructure has contributed to the convergence among China’s provinces. However, declining growth momentum …

administrative land reallocations and the development of land rental markets in China. We find that the two alternative mechanisms of …

interaction by providing a quantitative assessment on how increased spending on agricultural domestic support in China offset the …

This paper examines how farmers have adapted to the current range of climates across China. A cross sectional method is … used to analyze irrigation choice and crop choice across 8,405 farmers in 28 provinces in China. We find that both …