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Business and financial risks of small farm households in China

Turvey, Calum G.; Kong, Rong - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 2, pp. 155-172

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between business risks and credit choices of 400 farm households surveyed in Shaanxi province in October 2007 in the Yangling district. More specifically, this paper investigates whether or not rural farm households in...

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Changing patterns in comparative advantage for agricultural trade in East Asian countries

Heguang, Liu; Tada, Minoru; Dongsheng, Sun - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 2, pp. 227-238

Purpose – Economies in East Asia are at different development stages. Economic development has an impact on factor endowments and the intensities, then on the mode of agricultural trade. To examine the trade modes of these seven East Asian countries' agricultural products will give us some...

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Impact of credit disbursed by commercial banks on the productivity of wheat in Faisalabad district

Khalid Bashir, Muhammad; Gill, Zulfiqar Ahmad; Hassan, … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 3, pp. 275-282

Purpose – The agriculture sector is the single largest contributor to the national income (gross domestic product … in agriculture and 3.0 percent to GDP. Given its importance to the national economy, the government attaches high … improving the productivity of agriculture sector. Originality/value – The study in hand will be useful for the planners who are …

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Forage‐livestock policies designed to improve livelihoods in Western China: a critical review

Brown, Colin; Waldron, Scott; Yuman, Liu; Longworth, John - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 4, pp. 367-381

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how the promotion of integrated forage/ruminant‐livestock industries forms a key plank in efforts to improve rural household livelihoods in Western China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper critiques how this industry development has...

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A multi‐regional representation of China's agricultural sectors

Wittwer, Glyn; Horridge, Mark - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 4, pp. 420-434

agriculture in China. Unlike the national input‐output table published by the National Bureau of Statistics, the master database …, the paper contains an application to agriculture: it examines the impacts of productivity growth in different agricultural … policy issues concerning agriculture in China. …

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Review of China's agricultural integration development: 1978‐2008

Feng, Kaiwen; Zhang, Jinhua; Yingwei, Huang - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 4, pp. 459-477

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw conclusions about China's agricultural integration (CAI) by looking back its processes stage by stage, discussing the problems related to CAI, in order to learn salutary lessons for the future of agricultural development, for the increase in rural...

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Weather risk and the viability of weather insurance in China's Gansu, Shaanxi, and Henan provinces

Turvey, Calum G.; Kong, Rong - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 5-24

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate weather risks facing Chinese farmers, and to determine whether farmers would have a preference for weather insurance over other types of agricultural insurance. Design/methodology/approach – The data are based on 1,564 farm households...

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Determinants and performance index of foreign direct investment in China's agriculture

Lv, Licai; Wen, Simei; Xiong, Qiquan - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 36-48

Purpose – Since attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to agriculture is now an important policy concern for the … explore the determinants of FDI and evaluate the inward FDI performance in China's agriculture. Design …/methodology/approach – A multi‐variable regression model is conducted to examine the determinants of FDI in China's agriculture over the period …

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Perishability as a determinant of vertical coordination

Lo, Chu‐Ping - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 49-62

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a simple model to demonstrate how a trade‐off between incomplete contract distortions and excessive governance costs determine an agricultural firm's organizational choices. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, it is argued that the...

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Agriculture and economic growth in Tunisia

Eddine Chebbi, Houssem - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 63-78

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of agriculture in economic growth and its interactions with … paid to investigate non‐causality between agriculture and other economic sectors. Findings – Empirical results suggest that … analysis of intersector growth. However, in the short run, agriculture in Tunisia seems to have a partial role as a driving …

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