aims to make a measurement of agricultural bilateral trade costs of China. Design/methodology/approach – Based on Novy … model, this paper makes a measurement of agricultural bilateral trade costs before and after China joining the WTO (1995 …-2007). Findings – This paper finds that China's agricultural trade costs with its five major trade partners have not got a pronounced …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarize the China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER)'s second annual … were identified which could be appropriately organized into the following sections: agricultural trade and rural labor …

trade. Design/methodology/approach – While the most recently available time-series and cross-sectional data from China are … China's dairy imports and implications for trade. …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the growth and regional disparities of China's dairy market since 1980 …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the determination of China's agricultural foreign trade pattern since … whether China's agricultural foreign trade pattern is consistent with the neoclassical explanation. Findings – The findings … indicate that China's agricultural foreign trade pattern is evidently characterized by regional specific features. In the …

endowments and the intensities, then on the mode of agricultural trade. To examine the trade modes of these seven East Asian … using a four-quadrant method. Design/methodology/approach – Trade specialization coefficient is used to analyze the … products. Then a four-quadrant method is applied in this study, where trade specialization of agricultural products consists of …

reducing global warming (e.g. the USA vs China). The aim of this paper is to argue that open trade doesn't necessarily increase … resources in transfers of the associate abatement technology. Design/methodology/approach – The impacts of trade on environment … – While world pollution is jointly determined by the composition and technique effects, in contrast to literature, open trade …

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 …