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Impacts of direct government payments on US agriculture: evidence from 1960-2010 data
Zou, Yang; Wang, Qingbin - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 2, pp. 188-199
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of direct government payments on agricultural production and exports in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – Alternative regression models are estimated using the time-series data of 1960 to 2010 from ERS/USDA to address the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550532
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Productivity, efficiency and structural problems in Chinese dairy farms
Yu, Xiaohua - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 2, pp. 168-175
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the structural problem in the Chinese dairy sector. There exists a large number of low-efficiency, small-scale farms, and productivity inequality between small and large farms keeps increasing, which is a possible driving force behind the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814716
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Review of China's agricultural and rural development: policy changes and current issues
Chen, Xiwen - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 2, pp. 121-135
policies of China's agriculture and rural development, and analyzes the characteristics of and reasons for China's grain price …
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Issues of China's rural development and policies
Chen, Xiwen - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 3, pp. 233-239
China's agriculture and rural development and points out the new issues during the rural reform. The impact of the financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008641384
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Agriculture and economic growth in Tunisia
Chebbi, Houssem Eddine - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 63-78
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of agriculture in economic growth and its interactions with … paid to investigate non-causality between agriculture and other economic sectors. Findings – Empirical results suggest that … analysis of intersector growth. However, in the short run, agriculture in Tunisia seems to have a partial role as a driving …
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Achieving food security in China: past three decades and beyond
Zhou, Zhangyue - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 3, pp. 251-275
Purpose – The paper aims to review and assess China's food security practice over the past three decades with a view of drawing implications for further improving its food security in the future. Design/methodology/approach – A normative food security framework is used to assess China's food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008641387
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Perishability as a determinant of vertical coordination: The case of the US egg, poultry, and pork industries
Lo, Chu-Ping - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 49-62
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a simple model to demonstrate how a trade-off between incomplete contract distortions and excessive governance costs determine an agricultural firm's organizational choices. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, it is argued that the...
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China's farmer perception of pesticide residues and the impact factors: The case of Jiangsu Province
Wu, Linhai; Hou, Bo - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 1, pp. 84-104
Purpose – Pesticide residue is a stubborn problem affecting the quality and safety of agricultural products in China, and has not yet been fundamentally resolved. The purpose of this paper is to study farmers' perception of pesticide residues, as well as the main factors affecting their...
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Asset endowments, non-farm participation and local separability in remote rural China
Liang, Yicheng; Feldman, Marcus W.; Li, Shuzhuo; Daily, … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 5 (2013) 1, pp. 66-88
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to address a local separability character partly identified by non-farm participation behaviors in the context of multiple market imperfections. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops a model to analyze agricultural household's non-farm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010666576
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Migration, remittances, and agricultural productivity in small farming systems in Northwest China
Li, Lihua; Wang, Chenggang; Segarra, Eduardo; Nan, Zhibiao - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 5 (2013) 1, pp. 5-23
remittances have been reinvested in agriculture. Design/methodology/approach – Cross-sectional household survey data from three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631345