The Chinese economy has recently experienced a rapid and fundamental transformation, and the public expenditure on agriculture has also changed to reflect shifts in policy priorities. This paper reviewed public agricultural expenditure in a comprehensive way using detailed expenditure data at...

Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world, and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than have most industrial economies. This paper quantifies the distributional effects in the context...

This paper aims to provide a better understanding of Myanmar's agricultural export performance against its competitors in different regions and determine the policy actions for improving Myanmar's export performance. The normalized revealed comparative advantage (NRCA) index is computed to...

Rising energy expenditures due to more intensive use of energy in modern agriculture and increasing energy prices may affect rural households' agricultural incomes, particularly the incomes of the rural poor in developing countries. However, the exact link between energy costs and income among...

Industrial wages have increased significantly in China in recent years. At the same time, there have been widening gaps in wages across provinces. These trends are likely to prompt company headquarters to relocate. The relocation choices of headquarters are likely to change under different...

We conduct a randomized controlled trial to examine the impacts of delayed premium payment on insurance uptake and the subsequent investment decisions among small-holder farmers in rural China. Our results show uptake among those with the delayed payment option is three times as high as among...

Public expenditure in agriculture is one of the most important policy instruments for government in developing countries to address food security and poverty reduction. This paper provides a comprehensive review of agricultural policy and public agricultural expenditure (PAE) in China. China...

This paper studies the effect of local off-farm employment and migration on rural households’ technical efficiency of crop production using a five-year panel dataset from more than 2,000 households in five Chinese provinces. While there is not much debate about the positive contribution of...