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estimates of consumption-based poverty and inequality in rural Shaanxi, China. We also investigate whether using environmental …
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New research on the political economy of policy-induced distortions to incentives for optimal resource use in agriculture and insights from the study of the dramatic reforms in former state-controlled economy has led to enhanced insights on the role of governance structures on policy making in...
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In rural areas of many developing countries, including China, people do not have the chance to retire, but rather have …
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raw data from China show such an inverse relationship. However, the inverse relationship disappears after we instrument … for land area using the fact that one of the objectives of the land allocation process in rural China is to ensure local … unobserved land quality that is unevenly distributed across the farm size continuum, rather than inherent to China's agriculture …
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China between 2003 and 2007 and measured the quality and per kilometer cost of each road. According to our analysis, road …
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In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data for Chinese farms grouped into each of four regions
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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 …
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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). …
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