China. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from a rural financial survey, a switching regression model is used to … agricultural production area, in Northeast China. By removing credit constraints, average agricultural productivity was estimated … household productivity for the Heilongjiang province, a major agricultural production region, in Northeast China.  …

insurance for crops in China, in the Province of Hainan, and to also provide additional background information on weather index … insurance. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of 134 farmers was undertaken in Hainan, China, regarding their willingness to … insurance for agriculture in the province of Hainan, China.  …

Mexico and China. Design/methodology/approach – Using primary survey data from 730 farm households in the Shaanxi province of … China and from 372 farmers in northeastern Mexico, the authors investigate factors associated with risk rationed, price …. Findings – The authors find in China the incidence of risk rationing in farmers to be 6.5, 14 percent for quantity rationed and …

differences and similarities among the two EPZs. Findings – China is easier for MNCs to conduct business in because of the current … lack of enforcement of the labor laws and the retention rate of workers is higher relative to Mexico. Also, wages in China … are lower than in the Maquiladoras while at the same time the education level is higher in China than in Mexico. Research …