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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...
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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 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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The overall aim of the present paper is to better understand the evolution of tubewell ownership in the North China … gradually privatised. The analyses demonstrate that increasing water and land scarcity and policy intervention (mainly fiscal … also show that the privatisation of tubewells has affected cropping patterns in the North China Plain. When villages shift …
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Purpose – With the rise in the opportunity to go to college, the purpose of this paper is to identify if China's rural …
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