Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the effect of rural-urban income gap on agricultural growth in China and its …-urban income gap on agricultural growth in China. Findings – The empirical results show that both indices of rural-urban income … imply that equalized rural-urban and regional policies are required to maintain sustainable agricultural growth in China. …

affect China's GDP and the growth rate of the national economy. Design/methodology/approach – This paper constructs a … computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and uses data of China's 2007 Input-Output Table to analyze the impact of the return … of rural migrant labor on China's economy during the financial crisis. Findings – The results show that the return of …

China, we use agent-based modeling and simulate the physical and socio-economic drivers within two interactive sub …

decisions of group borrowers by highlighting the case of rural credit cooperatives (RCCs) in Guizhou province in Southwest China … conditions in rural China. Mechanisms such as threatening to withhold defaulters' future loans from RCCs failed to work. In … an attempt to empirically explore the determinants of repayment performance in group lending programs in China. The …

in China. Controlling for village fixed effects, poor access to water is found to decrease the probability of wage work …

-funded project orientated to introducing village-level forest-management practices in north-west China. The case highlights the …

In March 2006, China’s National People’s Congress officially promulgated the central government’s intention to “build a … at the local level. It argues that by combining China’s new fiscal system of transfer payments to poor local governments …

urban-rural integration in China delivered in Chinese by Professor Ye Xingqing at the Ninth European Conference on … Agriculture and Rural Development in China (ECARDC9) held at the University of Leeds in the UK on 3-5 April 2009. Professor Ye … Department for Rural Economy, Research Office of the State Council, People’s Republic of China, has been personally involved in …