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The declining share of agricultural employment in the People's Republic of China : how fast?
Felipe, Jesus; Dacuycuy, Connie; Lanzafame, Matteo - 2014
transfer of workers out of low-productivity agriculture is a fundamental pillar of the PRC's aspirations to progress and … of employment in agriculture in the PRC will decline to about 24% by 2020, the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010463570
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What stayers do? : capital endowments and on-farm transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018
agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926385
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The Economic Impact of Weather Variability on China’s Rice Sector
Chen, Shuai; Chen, Xiaoguang; Xu, Jintao - 2014
This paper provides the first county-level analysis of the impacts of weather variability on rice yield in China, by compiling a unique panel on irrigated single-season rice and daily weather data. We found that temperature and solar radiation had statistically significant impacts on rice yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959420
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Thought and practice of sustainable development in Chinese traditional agriculture
Genpan, Li - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 1, pp. 97-109
Chinese civilization is continuously developing, and it can be used as a reference for the development of Chinese agriculture … concerning Chinese traditional agriculture, including view of sancai, farming season, fertility, the nature of matters, recycling …, and economization. Findings – The results reveal that the nature of Chinese traditional agriculture is akin to ecological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366456
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Nonlinear investigations of China's agricultural transformation based on the structural break regime switching model
Lu, Jie; Hu, Angang; Yan, Yilong - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 1, pp. 52-68
Purpose – Investigating the characteristics of the transformation of China's agricultural growth and the institutional reforms during the whole transition period in the 1980s will help to understand China's economic and agricultural reform and offer some successful experiences to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551062
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A strategic risk management program for agriculture
Hoag, Dana L.K. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 4, pp. 505-517
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how an organized framework for risk management called Risk Navigator SRM© can be practically applied to common risk management problems. Design/methodology/approach – The program makes complex risk principles easier to understand and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814711
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Aligning Public Expenditure for Agricultural Development Priorities Under Rapid Transformation : The Case of China
Yu, Bingxin; Chen, Kevin; Zhang, Haisen - 2015
Public expenditure in agriculture is one of the most important policy instruments for government in developing … public agricultural expenditure (PAE) in China. China shifted away from taxing agriculture to supporting agriculture in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014139307
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Diversification and Agrarian Change under Environmental Constraints in Rural China : Evidence from a Poor Township of Beijing Municipality
Démurger, Sylvie; Fournier, Martin; Yang, Weiyong - 2010
This article illustrates the impact of changes related to market reforms and environmental policies on the economic structure in rural China by providing a comparative analysis of several villages in a poor township in Beijing municipality. Two main concomitant phenomena are affecting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050417
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The diminishing influences of agricultural output changes on general price changes in China
Liu, Xiaoyun; Luo, Wanchun; Mao, Xuefeng; Wang, Xiuqing; … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 3, pp. 345-355
(China and the rest of the world) and three commodities (agriculture, manufacturing goods, and services) is used to assess … influence of agriculture on the China's general price indices has been weakening along with China's economic development with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008641382
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The Declining Share of Agricultural Employment in the People's Republic of China : How Fast?
Felipe, Jesus - 2015
transfer of workers out of low-productivity agriculture is a fundamental pillar of the PRC's aspirations to progress and … of employment in agriculture in the PRC will decline to about 24% by 2020, the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029053