This study uses a randomized controlled trial of a school-based anemia reduction program in rural China to examine how …

With the rise of the private sector in rural China, power has been shifting from the hands of local government … officials to the hands of entrepreneurs. In this situation, economic theory offers two opposing predictions regarding how local … 2500 villages in rural China. Our findings provide strong support for the economic losers hypothesis - local governments …

In this paper, we attempt to assess the effectiveness of China's Poverty Alleviation Programs in contributing to … economic growth in poor areas. To meet this overall goal, we briefly describe China's poor area policy and examine how its … the poverty programs have been implemented in the parts of China that are truly poor. Finally, we attempt to assess if the …

The main goal of the paper is to address the impact of the WTO on China's agricultural sector. To accomplish this goal … we address two sets of issues. First, we seek to provide measures of the distortions in China's agricultural sector at a … the agricultural sector's major commodities using a new methodology to account for grain quality differences within China …

Although health is an important factor in economic development, millions of China's rural residents have no medical … coverage. Nearly 10 percent of those that were sick in rural China consciously did not seek medical care, mostly because of … deteriorating situation, a new cooperative medical system (NCMS) was initialized in rural China in 2003 by the government. However …

The impact of wheat diversity on the productivity of wheat in China is examined using total factor productivity (TFP …) and an instrumental variable approach. TFP in seven key wheat-producing provinces in China shows significant, though …

agricultural incentives in the transition countries in East Asia (China and Vietnam), Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic …

China, the largest conservation set-aside program in the developing world. Using a panel data set that we designed and … payments to farmers decrease off-farm labor participation. One reason for the difference in findings between China and US may … be because there are more impediments to participating in off-farm labor market in the poor areas of rural China (the …

China, like many developing countries, has seen a dramatic increase in the use of pesticides and other agricultural … pesticide supply reached about 340 thousand tons and China is likely to become the biggest pesticide consumer in the world …