The overall goal of our paper is to explore this question of how China's policy will likely respond as the nation … enters the WTO. Specifically, we will have three objectives. First, we briefly review China's existing agriculture policy and … past performance of China's agriculture and how it has changed during the past 20 years of reform. Next, we examine the …

This paper assesses the implications of China's trade and domestic policies for incentives to producers in China. It … incentives have been reduced. In the early 1980s, on average, China's domestic prices were far below international prices. There … narrowed the gap between world and China farmgate prices. By the mid-2000s, China's agriculture was operating with only small …

"The emergence of China as a global economic powerhouse, the uncertain path of Russia towards a market economy, and the …