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Within a context of global trade liberalisation and constrained national budgets, agriculture in many countries has proved incapable of sustaining household livelihoods an d socio-economic development in rural areas. The post-war industrial success of several Asian countries has suggested...
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that contributed to growth in China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand. Thus, promoting trade policy in these … contributing to growth in Korea and Taiwan. The study also found that Japanese FDI significantly helped to stimulate the growth …. Meanwhile, appropriate policies to attract Japanese FDI into the agricultural sector are also important in order to help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005484014
Within a context of global trade liberalisation and constrained national budgets, agriculture in many countries has proved incapable of sustaining household livelihoods an d socio-economic development in rural areas. The post-war industrial success of several Asian countries has suggested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005330298
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805110
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805170
The western part of China has a long history and reputation of growing a variety of quality melons largely due to its … to be explored. This paper analysed the melon supply chain in western China in the areas of logistical efficiency and …
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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 …
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The impact of China's new rural income support policy and recent price trends on grain production and rural income … for many other villages and regions in China. Simulation results show that the income support policy does not reach its …
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China but also to the stability of the world economy. The transformation of the Chinese wool textile industry illustrates …
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There has been much analysis of the potential impact of China's membership of the WTO on world trade in agricultural … products but few studies of the actual effects thus far on China's trade performance. This paper compares changes in the … competitiveness of China's trade in primary agricultural food and processed food products over the period 1998 to 2003 through a range …
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