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A decision framework for optimal crop reinsurance selection
Pai, Jeffrey S.; Boyd, Milton S. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 2, pp. 148-166
Purpose – In the USA, private insurance companies serve as an integral part of the delivery and risk sharing of the federal crop insurance program. Governed by the Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA), private crop insurance companies must designate an eligible crop insurance contract to the...
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Evaluating production risks for wheat producers in Beijing
Zhang, Qiao; Wang, Ke - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 2, pp. 200-211
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the production risk for winter wheat producers in Beijing, China, particularly in its 13 districts. Design/methodology/approach – A parametric approach is used to model wheat-yield distribution for samples and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is...
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Institutional credit and rice productivity: a case study of District Lahore, Pakistan
Bashir, Muhammad Khalid; Mehmood, Yasir - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 4, pp. 412-419
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze how institutional credit affected the productivity of rice crop in District Lahore, Punjab Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – For this purpose, stratified random sampling technique was adopted to select the sample respondents. The...
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Impact of credit disbursed by commercial banks on the productivity of wheat in Faisalabad district
Bashir, Muhammad Khalid; Gill, Zulfiqar Ahmad; Hassan, … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 3, pp. 275-282
Purpose – The agriculture sector is the single largest contributor to the national income (gross domestic product … in agriculture and 3.0 percent to GDP. Given its importance to the national economy, the government attaches high … improving the productivity of agriculture sector. Originality/value – The study in hand will be useful for the planners who are …
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Weather risk and the viability of weather insurance in China's Gansu, Shaanxi, and Henan provinces
Kong, Calum G. Turvey Rong - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 5-24
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate weather risks facing Chinese farmers, and to determine whether farmers would have a preference for weather insurance over other types of agricultural insurance. Design/methodology/approach – The data are based on 1,564 farm households...
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A strategic risk management program for agriculture
Hoag, Dana L.K. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 505-517
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how an organized framework for risk management called Risk Navigator SRM© can be practically applied to common risk management problems. Design/methodology/approach – The program makes complex risk principles easier to understand and...
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A comparison of rural and urban healthcare consumption and health insurance
Wang, H. Holly; Huang, Shaomin; Zhang, Linxiu; Rozelle, … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 2, pp. 212-227
Purpose – Since 1999, China has undergone reform of its healthcare system. City-based social health insurance (SHI) is the primary form of current health insurance, supplemented by various commercial health insurance programs. The rural new cooperative medical system (NCMS) was introduced in...
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Testing for adverse selection of crop insurance in northern China
Hou, Linging; Hoag, Dana L.K.; Mu, Yueying - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 462-475
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency of current subsidized crop insurance products (SCIPs) in Miyun county, in northern China, by testing the existence of adverse selection. Design/methodology/approach – The authors examine the efficiency of SCIPs from a farmers'...
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Chemical fertilizer use efficiency and its determinants in China's farming sector: Implications for environmental protection
Wu, Yanrui - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 2, pp. 117-130
Purpose – The objective of this paper is to examine chemical fertilizer use efficiency at the household level and provide an assessment of the causes of efficiency variation. Design/methodology/approach – A stochastic frontier production function approach is employed to estimate fertilizer...
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Agricultural growth dynamics and decision mechanism in Chinese provinces: 1988-2008
Yu, Kang; Xin, Xiangfei; Nuetah, J. Alexander; Guo, Ping - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 2, pp. 150-170
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to perform an investigative analysis of the distribution of agricultural growth in China and the evolution of the decision mechanism. Design/methodology/approach – The kernel density estimation method was used to investigate the distribution of...
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