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China's agricultural sector faces challenges because most farms are still small scale. China's policy is to encourage … the consolidation of farms and promote farms that are larger in scale. A question that arises is: Are China's farms … growing? The goal of the present paper is to determine whether large farms in China have emerged or if farms remain small. To …
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share of students across rural China still have inadequate access to micronutrient-rich regular diets. Such poor diets can …. Large scale policies in Northwestern China have attempted to tackle these nutritional problems using eggs. The overall goal … areas of rural China. To meet this goal, we report on the results of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving over 2600 …
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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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Purpose – The purpose of this study is trying to document and examine the impacts of pesticide use on farmers' health. Different from previous studies, the paper is not only going to focus on the visible effect, but also the invisible effect. At the same time, the paper is going to divided the...
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Purpose – This paper aims to explain why the quality of infrastructure projects in rural China differs from village to …/methodology/approach – Using primary data collected by the authors on three types of infrastructure projects in villages across China, they created …
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northwest China. Design/methodology/approach – Using hemoglobin (Hb) levels as the outcome variable, the authors first measure … itself, one of the policy implications of this study is that malnutrition is still a serious problem in China and it is worse …
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