taxation of agriculture has declined sharply, with the abolition of production quotas and procurement pricing, and reductions … education, and reductions in barriers to mobility of labor out of agriculture. Many challenges remain in improving rural incomes …

The overall goal of our paper is to understand how WTO will affect the agriculture sector in China. To accomplish this … provide a context for our analysis of the current distortions that affect China's agriculture. Second, after briefly …

planning to reverse its longstanding policy of taxing farm households and instead began to provide them with subsidies. Over … the past five years, annual announcements have trumpeted rises in subsidies. Surprisingly, despite the historic turnaround … subsidy programme. According to the survey-based findings, we have shown that although agricultural subsidies per farm are low …

agriculture and insights from the study of the dramatic reforms in former state-controlled economy has led to enhanced insights on …

government achieved the envisaged objectives. -- food price ; agriculture ; price shocks ; political economy …