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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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Agricultural land tax and farm‐level land‐use changes and output supply response

Olubode‐Awosola, Femi - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 79-93

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to land redistribution policy which is presently not only one of the most defining political and development issues, but also perhaps the most difficult in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops a programming model...

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Estimating confidence intervals for technical efficiency of rainfed rice farming system in Nigeria

Ogundari, K.; Amos, T.T.; Ojo, S.O. - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 107-118

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the technical efficiency (TE) of the rainfed rice farming system in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – Special attention is directed to the construction of confidence interval (CI) for individual efficiency estimates using stochastic...

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Issues of China's rural development and policies

Chen, Xiwen - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 3, pp. 233-239

China's agriculture and rural development and points out the new issues during the rural reform. The impact of the financial …

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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 …

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Institutional credit and rice productivity: a case study of District Lahore, Pakistan

Khalid Bashir, Muhammad; Mehmood, Yasir - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 4, pp. 412-419

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze how institutional credit affected the productivity of rice crop in District Lahore, Punjab Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – For this purpose, stratified random sampling technique was adopted to select the sample respondents. The...

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The effect of China's RMB exchange rate movement on its agricultural export

Chen, Longjiang - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 1, pp. 26-41

Purpose – The paper aims to examine the relationship between changes and volatility of China's Renminbi (RMB) exchange rates and its agricultural export. Design/methodology/approach – A GARCH(1, 1) model is specified to measure the exchange rate volatility and autoregressive distributed lag...

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Farmer‐buyer relationships in China: the effects of contracts, trust and market environment

Zhang, Xiaoyong; Hu, Dinghuan - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 1, pp. 42-53

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is first, to develop constructs to measure three important concepts in the supply chain literature: contracts, trust and market environment, in the Chinese context and to further investigate the relationships amongst these three concepts based on the...

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The influence of agricultural policies on agriculture structure adjustment in Taiwan

Chang, Tsai‐Yu - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 3 (2011) 1, pp. 67-79

tariff on agricultural products and reduce agriculture support policies not linked to production, a delay in labor adjustment …

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