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The dramatic transition from Communism to market economies across Asia and Europe started in the Chinese countryside in the 1970s. Since then more than a billion of people, many of them very poor, have been affected by radical reforms in agriculture. However, there are enormous differences in...
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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 …
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This paper provides evidence regarding gains due to agricultural market liberalization in China. We empirically … identify the different effects that incentive and farm restructuring reforms and gradual market liberalization have on China …
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The overall goal of our paper is to understand how WTO will affect the agriculture sector in China. To accomplish this … goal we have two specific objectives. First, we seek to provide measures of the distortions in China's agricultural sector … at a time immediately prior to the nation's accession to WTO. Second, we seek to assess how well integrated China …
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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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This paper analyzes the political and institutional factors which are behind the dramatic changes in distortions to agricultural incentives in the transition countries in East Asia, Central Asia, and the rest of the former Soviet Union, and in Central and Eastern Europe. The paper explains why...
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"The emergence of China as a global economic powerhouse, the uncertain path of Russia towards a market economy, and the …
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