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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
. Originality/value – While many agricultural trade disputes under WTO are related to the question of whether domestic government …
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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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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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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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 …
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Decomposition of agricultural labor productivity growth and its regional disparity in China
Xin, Xiangfei; Qin, Fu - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 1, pp. 92-100
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate determinants of regional disparities in China's agricultural labor productivity growth. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first decomposes the regional disparity in China's agricultural productivity growth into its components:...
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The influence of agricultural policies on agriculture structure adjustment in Taiwan: An analysis of off-farm labor movement
Chang, Tsai-Yu - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 1, pp. 67-79
paper is that even though Taiwan has been participating in World Trade Organization from 2002 and consented to cut the … tariff on agricultural products and reduce agriculture support policies not linked to production, a delay in labor adjustment …
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Determinants and performance index of foreign direct investment in China's agriculture
Xiong, Licai Lv Simei Wen Qiquan - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 36-48
Purpose – Since attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to agriculture is now an important policy concern for the … explore the determinants of FDI and evaluate the inward FDI performance in China's agriculture. Design …/methodology/approach – A multi-variable regression model is conducted to examine the determinants of FDI in China's agriculture over the period …
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