The overall goal of our paper is to estimate the impact of China's land rights on farm investment incentives and … various linkages between land rights and investment incentives. Next, we demonstrate how land use behaviour differs according … specific land rights, instead of just the land tenure type, and investment incentives. The paper also measures the size of …

China’s experience demonstrates the importance of technological development and public investment in improving …

The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different types of domestic waste disposal in rural China and the … sampled household data are used to describe the disposal of domestic waste in rural China, including domestic garbage and …

The emergence of China as an economic power is one of the miracle growth stories of the last part of the 20th century …). In fact, by the end of 2007 China had achieved many of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). …

trends and determinants of agricultural R&D in China. Results show that while the public sector monopolized agricultural … development crowded out private R&D investment. China’s private R&D investment would grow more rapidly if the government shifted …

The overall aim of the present paper is to better understand the evolution of tubewell ownership in the North China … and financial subsidies for tubewell investment) leads to the observed shifts in tubewell ownership patterns. The results … also show that the privatisation of tubewells has affected cropping patterns in the North China Plain. When villages shift …