Purpose – Two effects simultaneously shape the future soybean meal (SBM) demand in China: the income effect on meat … the diffusion path of commercial feeding technology when forecasting China's future SBM demand. The paper addresses the … future SBM feeding ratios; Objective 5: forecast future soybean demand in China. Findings – China needs 33 years from 2009 to …

Purpose – The Chinese Government relies heavily on increasing farming scale to address the new challenges facing China … resulting to debates over large-scale farming in China. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and highlight the debate over … China’s on-going large-scale farming. Design/methodology/approach – This paper contributes to the policy debates over large …

-sectional survey data of some 600 smallholder rubber farmers in Xishuangbanna in Southwest China is employed. This paper develops a …

Purpose: The need for a universal rural pension system has been heightened by demographic changes in rural China …, China’s Government introduced the New Rural Social Pension Program (NRSPP) in 2009, a voluntary and highly subsidized … authors examine whether the NRSPP affects the labor supply of the elderly population in China. Design …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate dynamic food demand in urban China, with use of a complete … DLES in the first stage and a LA/DAIDS in the second stage. Employing provincial aggregate data (1995-2010) from the China … urban household surveys, The authors estimated the demand elasticities for primary food products in urban China. Findings …

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 …