Using a unique survey data on agricultural traders in China in 2004, this study provides direct evidence on the … within China are fairly small, accounting for about 20 percent of trade value. (2) Transport and non-transport costs … are not sizable as we perceived. (5) Road quality is crucial for reducing transport costs within China: Increasing …

This paper presents a meta-analysis of 5308 observations of total factor productivity growth (TFPG) in China from 150 … primary studies to provide some insightful explanations to the controversies about productivity growth in China in the current … TFPGs; (4) Regional disparities of TFPG are significant and specifically the TFPG in East China is higher than that in …

in Chinese grain production. Our results indicate that grain production in south China might, at least in the short run … South China could entail an increase of grain output by 3.79 million tons or an economic benefit of around USD 798 million … due to the increasing mean output. However the impact of global warming in north China is negative, small and …