reducing shortfall risks of revenues of a representative average farm that produces corn or wheat in the North China Plain (NCP … are based on the Statistical Yearbook of China and the Chinese Meteorological Administration. Methods of insurance … database in China and, in particular, by the unavailability of individual farm data. Moreover, the low density of weather …

Purpose – This paper seeks to understand the evolution of financial intermediation in the course of China's economic … collaborators from a 1998 survey of financial institutions, enterprises, and government officials in southern China. Findings … – Based on an empirical investigation of rural financial reforms, it is argued that China's two-decade long financial reform …

plausible. By conducting the experiments in the USA, a wealthy developed country, and China, a developing country where formal … implications – The paper includes implications for the administration of micro-credit loans in China and other developing nations …

China. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from a rural financial survey, a switching regression model is used to … agricultural production area, in Northeast China. By removing credit constraints, average agricultural productivity was estimated … household productivity for the Heilongjiang province, a major agricultural production region, in Northeast China. …

gathered from a household survey on North China Plain, the purpose of this paper is to find pervasive rationing in the highly … regulated formal credit market in rural China. The subsidized credit policies favor local elites instead of the targeted poor … informal sectors, this paper elaborates on the fragmented rural credit market in China where different borrower segments are …

Mexico and China. Design/methodology/approach –Using primary survey data from 730 farm households in the Shaanxi province of … China and from 372 farmers in northeastern Mexico, the authors investigate factors associated with risk rationed, price …. Findings –The authors find in China the incidence of risk rationing in farmers to be 6.5, 14 percent for quantity rationed and …

reducing shortfall risks of revenues of a representative average farm that produces corn or wheat in the North China Plain (NCP … are based on the Statistical Yearbook of China and the Chinese Meteorological Administration. Methods of insurance … database in China and, in particular, by the unavailability of individual farm data. Moreover, the low density of weather …

China. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from a rural financial survey, a switching regression model is used to … agricultural production area, in Northeast China. By removing credit constraints, average agricultural productivity was estimated … household productivity for the Heilongjiang province, a major agricultural production region, in Northeast China.  …

insurance for crops in China, in the Province of Hainan, and to also provide additional background information on weather index … insurance. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of 134 farmers was undertaken in Hainan, China, regarding their willingness to … insurance for agriculture in the province of Hainan, China.  …