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Recently China's central government has promoted public goods investment in pursuit of rural development and poverty … demands of local residents. Using village- and household-level survey data, this study seeks to identify the determinants of …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to quantify the implications of China's recently adopted agricultural policies … applied to address whether China's recent trade and production policies distort China's domestic and international commodity … increase China's production slightly, causing imports to decrease while exports decline because of input subsidies, export …
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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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Purpose – This paper seeks to understand the evolution of financial intermediation in the course of China's economic … collaborators from a 1998 survey of financial institutions, enterprises, and government officials in southern China. Findings … – Based on an empirical investigation of rural financial reforms, it is argued that China's two-decade long financial reform …
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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...
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The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China's colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high … tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education …
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a farm household survey gathered by the authors in Zhejiang provinces. In addition to a sit-down interview with 100 … frequently in each household. Findings – This paper indicates that farmers who spray more pesticides are more likely to have … applied pesticides most frequently in each household. …
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