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Floods are a major source of risk for the agricultural sector. Flood risk in the agricultural sector primarily arises from river flooding, flash floods, and coastal flooding. The impacts of floods can result in sizable agricultural damages at the local level. Floods in agricultural zones expose...
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In the post-collectivization period, rural Chinese households were required to sell part of their grain output to the state at a below-market price; however, increases in this quota price beginning in 1993 generated substantial positive income shocks. These income shocks also varied...
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victim of its own success.In parts of China, Vietnam, and the Philippines-the countries studied in The Challenge of …
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This chapter begins with a brief summary of economic growth and structural changes in the region since the 1950s and of agricultural and other economic policies as they affected agriculture before and after the various reforms, and in several cases fundamental regime changes, of the past...
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China's success in addressing food problems after adopting the reforms in 1978 has been nothing less than remarkable …. Grain output (rice, wheat and maize) has almost doubled and most hunger has been eliminated. Ever since China embarked on …. Agriculture has been an important contributor to these developments. Since 1978, China has almost doubled its cereal production …
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mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … father is college educated. In China, the conditional expectation function is convex for sons in urban areas, but linear in … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …
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China, the United States, and India, decided on a more gradual phasing out extending beyond 2030. This paper estimates the … welfare loss of about 1.5 percent. Some of the major emitters, such as China and India, will experience minimal impacts to …
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farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Fathers' nonfarm occupation and education were complementary in determining a …
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The seven largest emerging market economies-China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey … three times more due to a similarly sized increase in G7 growth. Third, among the EM7, spillovers from China are the largest …
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