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Persistent poverty in rural China : where, why, and how to escape?
Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; Rozelle, Scott; … - 2012
Using rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces, this paper identifies determinants of long-term poverty and tests the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Special emphasis is given to the selection of the poverty line and inter-regional differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588447
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The political economy of agricultural reform in transition countries
Rozelle, Scott; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - In: Institutions and sustainability : political economy of …, (pp. 27-41). 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003843432
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Political Economy of Agricultural Distortions in Transition Countries of Asia and Europe
Rozelle, Scott - 2009
agricultural incentives in the transition countries in East Asia, Central Asia, and the rest of the former Soviet Union, and in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246939
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Can One-to-One Computing Narrow the Digital Divide and the Educational Gap in China? The Case of Beijing Migrant Schools
Mo, Di; Swinnen, Johan; Zhang, Linxiu; Yi, Hongmei; Qu, … - In: World Development 46 (2013) C, pp. 14-29
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is a high profile initiative to narrow the inequality of access to ICT and improve educational performance. However, there is little empirical evidence on its impacts. In order to assess the effectiveness of OLPC, we conducted a randomized experiment of OLPC with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010664679
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Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape?
Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; Rozelle, Scott; … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 4, pp. 784-795
Using rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces, this paper identifies determinants of long-term poverty and tests the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Special emphasis is given to the selection of the poverty line and inter-regional differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574056
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Persistent Poverty in Rural China: Where, Why, and How to Escape?
Glauben, Thomas; Herzfeld, Thomas; Rozelle, Scott; … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 4, pp. 784-795
Using rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces, this paper identifies determinants of long-term poverty and tests the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Special emphasis is given to the selection of the poverty line and inter-regional differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586956
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Producing and Procuring Horticultural Crops with Chinese Characteristics: Why Small Farmers Are Thriving and Supermarkets Are Absent in Rural China
Wang, Honglin; Dong, Xiaoxia; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805110
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Agricultural Development, Nutrition, and the Policies Behind China’s Success
Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 7 (2010) 1, pp. 93-126
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). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144987
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Evolution of tubewell ownership and production in the North China Plain
Wang, Jinxia; Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 49 (2005) 2
The overall aim of the present paper is to better understand the evolution of tubewell ownership in the North China … also show that the privatisation of tubewells has affected cropping patterns in the North China Plain. When villages shift …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009398733
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What is keeping the poor out of college?: Enrollment rates, educational barriers and college matriculation in China
Wang, Xiaobing; Liu, Chengfang; Zhang, Linxiu; Luo, Renfu; … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 2, pp. 131-149
Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319737