The North China Plain (NCP) covers an area of around 328,000 km2 and is one of the most important regions of cereal crop production in China. Wheat and maize rotations and one season cotton are the most common cropping systems. The region contributes at an amount of about 50% to the countries...

Historically, China's political attempts to provide access to rural credit has met with mixed results and an institutional structure that often strays from intended policy goals. There has been a close correspondence between financial depression and many policy-driven financial institutions that...

The authors examine the banking industries of Argentina, Chile, and Mexico to see if market discipline existed there in the 1980s and 1990s. Using a set of bank panel data, they test for the presence of market discipline by studying whether depositors punish risky banks by withdrawing their...

This paper reviews the literature on economic development as it relates to indigenous people in the United States and Canada, and focuses on how institutions affect economic development of reservation and reserve economies. Evidence shows that strong property rights to reservation and reserve...

There is a clear failure to adapt to the institutional mechanisms with regard to the regulation of fishery resources. management systems based on ITQs have not managed to eliminate the stocks over-exploitation and the over-capitalization in the fishing sector. The possibility to introduce...

Este articulo aborda como la progresiva integracion de las consideraciones ambientales en las politicas agrarias conlleva la reconfiguracion de los derechos de propiedad sobre la tierra. En este sentido, el articulo plantea como los propietarios de la tierra han encontrado en dicho proceso una...

A partir da segunda metade da década de noventa, após a fase de reestruturação e modernização da produção agrícola, as questões econômicas pertinentes aos conflitos de terra no Brasil ganharam maior grau de complexidade em virtude de significativas mudanças institucionais e das...