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, informal and emerging microfinance lenders in the four poor counties of China. Design/methodology/approach – This paper extends … different lenders, the formal lenders rural credit cooperatives (RCCs), the informal lenders and the new microfinance … loan access. Originality/value – This paper extends the existing studies on credit rationing in rural China by comparing …
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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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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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/methodology/approach – The conference theme was “Agriculture and the Wealth of Nations”, aiming to explore the importance of agriculture as well … as the relationship and interaction between agriculture and the whole economy. The attendees from 14 countries discussed …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to fill a knowledge gap by examining the changes in fruit and vegetable consumption of Chinese households. Design/methodology/approach – Using 1993 and 2001 household survey data from three selected provinces in China, the authors estimated a quantile...
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smallholders can access the premium prices potentially available but also to improve international competitiveness. Originality …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a financial liberalization index (FLI) and evaluate its impact on agricultural growth. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses the autoregressive distributed lag approach to determine the long run and short coefficients. Findings – The...
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Purpose – The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of remittance income on rural households in China. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from a large survey of farming households in three Chinese provinces, the impacts of remittances and other types of income on...
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Chinese civilization is continuously developing, and it can be used as a reference for the development of Chinese agriculture … concerning Chinese traditional agriculture, including view of sancai, farming season, fertility, the nature of matters, recycling …, and economization. Findings – The results reveal that the nature of Chinese traditional agriculture is akin to ecological …
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environmental degradation due to freer trade in agriculture. It also implies that more investment on environmental protection is …
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