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Water users associations and agricultural water use efficiency in northern China
Zhang, Lei; Heerink, Nico; Dries, Liesbeth; Qu, Futian - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
management through water users associations (WUAs) with the purpose to promote more efficient water use and higher farm incomes … been universally successful in saving water and improving farm incomes. This paper aims to examine the underlying causes of … even fully offset the potential positive impact of water savings on farm incomes in our research area. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913992
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RECENT EVIDENCE ON AGRICULTURAL EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY IN CHINA: A METAFRONTIER APPROACH
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Xiaobing, Wang - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2007
significant changes in efficiency and productivity. This paper measures agricultural technical efficiency (TE) and total factor … productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers operating under their own technologies. A metafrontier function approach is …
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Saving or stripping rural industry: an analysis of privatization and efficiency in China
Li, Hongbin; Rozelle, Scott - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 23 (2000) 3
This paper describes the process of privatization of China's Township Enterprises. Findings from a recent field survey by the authors show how far privatization has proceeded and how it has affected firm performance. The pervasiveness and impact of privatization are readily apparent. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011069402
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Product and process innovation in the food processing industry: case study in Guangxi province
Ma, Xin; McSweeney, Peter - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 16 (2008)
China's food processing sector has arrived at a critical stage and the challenges for the food industry including undergoing relevant structural adjustments are well documented (OECD 2000). The Chinese domestic economy continues to boom and living standards of people continue to improve. Food...
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Evolving trends of grain production in China
Zhou, Zhang-Yue; Tian, Wei-Ming - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 14 (2006)
Grain is China’s most significant agricultural product, its output being the most watched indicator by government officials, traders and researchers inside and outside China. This paper looks into China’s grain production trends in the recent decade, both before and after...
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The relationship between farm size and productivity in agriculture : evidence from maize production in Northern China
Sheng, Yu; Ding, Jiping; Huang, Jikun - In: American journal of agricultural economics 101 (2019) 3, pp. 790-806
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114738
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SOURCES OF GROWTH AND SUPPLY RESPONSE: A CROSS-COMMODITY ANALYSIS OF CHINA'S GRAIN SECTOR
Colby, Hunter; Diao, Xinshen; Somwaru, Agapi - Department of Applied Economics, College of … - 1999
A growth accounting method is used to analyze the sources of growth in China's rice, wheat, corn and soybeans, the four most important crops in China's grain sector, during 1978-97. A large TFP contribution to growth in grain production is found in the period immediately following China's rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805821
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Dynamic activity analysis model based win-win development forecasting under the environmental regulation in China
Shiyi, Chen; Härdle, Wolfgang - 2012
productivity and reduce the undesirable output simultaneously. Based on directional distance function, this paper proposes a novel … improvement in net growth of potential output and the steadily increasing growth of total factor productivity. This favors Porter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407029
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Lafite in China : media representations of "wine culture" in new markets
Smith Maguire, Jennifer; Lim, Ming - In: Journal of macromarketing : examining the interactions … 35 (2015) 2, pp. 229-242
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286472
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Chinese FDI in the French and Australian wine industries : liabilities of foreignness and country of origin effects
Curran, Louise; Thorpe, Michael W. - In: Frontiers of business research in China : selected … 9 (2015) 3, pp. 443-480
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490582