Purpose – This paper aims to explain why the quality of infrastructure projects in rural China differs from village to … village and how project quality is correlated with project design attributes and governance factors. Design …/methodology/approach – Using primary data collected by the authors on three types of infrastructure projects in villages across China, they created …

three main types of infrastructure projects in rural China, we find that a.) between-project within-village quality …This study seeks to explain the differences in infrastructure quality across China’s villages. Using primary data on … differences are small and project design has little explanatory power; b.) between-village variations are larger; and c.) there …

China. This study also employs a dichotomous choice model to estimate consumers- mean willingness to pay (WTP) for biotech …

especially in the context of developing countries such as China where livestock is becoming more important in the domestic … agricultural economy. We estimate total factor productivity (TFP) for four major livestock products in China employing the … technical innovation in China's livestock sector, technical efficiency improvement has been relatively slow. …

especially in the context of developing countries such as China where livestock is becoming more important in the domestic … agricultural economy. We estimate total factor productivity (TFP) for four major livestock products in China and by employing the … considerable technical innovation in China's livestock sector, technical efficiency improvement was relatively slow. …

from China. The simulation results show that how poor rural households are affected depends on a variety of factors …

The overall goal of this paper is to analyse the political economy of food price policies in China during the global … food crisis. The results show that given China's unique economic and political context and the nature of its agricultural …