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of cotton into China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews first the possible arguments for raising the tariff … tariff on cotton has been a subject of intense debate in China and this paper is intended to provide an input into this … debate. The paper agrees that urgent action is clearly needed to mitigate the poverty problems in rural China, but concludes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366457
of cotton into China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews first the possible arguments for raising the tariff … tariff on cotton has been a subject of intense debate in China and this paper is intended to provide an input into this … debate. The paper agrees that urgent action is clearly needed to mitigate the poverty problems in rural China, but concludes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014689549
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a new approach to market analysis, and test how the China‐US soybean … counter‐intuitively worsened after China's elimination of quota in 1999, and accession to WTO in 2001. One other interesting … impacts and effectiveness of government policies on China's international soybean markets, the remaining bottlenecks, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014689661
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a new approach to market analysis, and test how the China-US soybean … counter-intuitively worsened after China's elimination of quota in 1999, and accession to WTO in 2001. One other interesting … impacts and effectiveness of government policies on China's international soybean markets, the remaining bottlenecks, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583927
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013532874
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290598
Purpose: Mental budgeting, as a part of mental accounting theory, is expected to impact a household's budgetary management in terms of expenses. The purpose of this paper is to study whether and how mental budgeting can explain differences in farmers' reactions to different incentives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592272
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277221
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277223
Purpose – The social safety net of health care insurance is rapidly expanding in rural China. New Rural Cooperative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081113