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 …

in farmers' reactions to different incentives of low-toxicity pesticide use. Design/methodology/approach: Based on data … affects farmers' intentions to switch to low-toxicity pesticide use when faced with different incentives. Findings: The …' reactions to different incentives aimed at stimulating the adoption of low-toxicity pesticides. …

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 …

(NSC) development at county level in China, and by which to evaluate the level of NSC construction among different regions … in China. Then, some problems of rural development can be found and corresponding measures can be proposed, which could … index system was used to evaluate the level of NSC construction in 28 counties of China in 2007. Finally, we calculated …

transmission relationships between agricultural futures and the agriculture index in China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper … review about the estimation methods. It also provides information about China's soybean, soy meal industry. Originality …/value – The paper contains updated information about China's soybean and soybean meal trading. It uses new estimation methods (TAR …

average about two-thirds of the chemical fertilizers utilized are excessive in China. This has serious consequences as the …