Purpose – This paper aims to draw lessons from China's development experiences, particularly in the areas of … agricultural and rural development, to increase growth and reduce poverty in Africa South of the Sahara. It also examines China … well as poverty and hunger reduction, in China and Africa South of the Sahara. The authors then examine strategies for …

household survey in rural China, this paper aims to examine the importance of local spillovers in the diffusion of two major … durable goods consumption conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of China, the authors examine the likelihood of …

Purpose – The social safety net of health care insurance is rapidly expanding in rural China. New Rural Cooperative …

Purpose – Historically, China's political attempts to provide access to rural credit has met with mixed results and an … institutions in China appears to have robbed from the poor to lend to the rich, with actions that severely depleted the lending … the many policy-driven financial institutions that dominated the rural financial system in China. More recently, ongoing …

(NSC) development at county level in China, and by which to evaluate the level of NSC construction among different regions … in China. Then, some problems of rural development can be found and corresponding measures can be proposed, which could … index system was used to evaluate the level of NSC construction in 28 counties of China in 2007. Finally, we calculated …

transmission relationships between agricultural futures and the agriculture index in China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper … review about the estimation methods. It also provides information about China's soybean, soy meal industry. Originality …/value – The paper contains updated information about China's soybean and soybean meal trading. It uses new estimation methods (TAR …

average about two-thirds of the chemical fertilizers utilized are excessive in China. This has serious consequences as the …

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine China's county-level fiscal difficulties. A large portion of China …

Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …

in China and the evolution of the decision mechanism. Design/methodology/approach – The kernel density estimation method … was used to investigate the distribution of agricultural growth in China using 1988-2008 panel data of the 29 provinces on … the mainland. A nonparametric income distribution approach was employed to decompose China's agricultural output growth …