There are currently two contrasting approaches towards aid policy in Africa: that followed by the West is well known for its conditionality, selectivity and focus on direct financial support, while the approach adopted by China eschews conditionality and concentrates on infrastructure building....

This paper uses farm panel data from China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently, China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion of machine rentals and machine services provided by specialized agents, which has...

Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Economic impacts of commercializing insect-resistant GM maize in China -- The value of a novel biotechnology -- Scientists' attitudes toward agricultural GM technology development and GM food in China -- Attitudes toward GM...

We explain a puzzling contradiction: theory often predicts that higher inequality leads to higher taxation, yet empirical results are mixed. In our model agents with heterogeneous wealth vote for the level of tax and make occupational choices to be workers or entrepreneurs. The tax chosen by the...

Using rural household panel data from three Chinese provinces, this paper identifies determinants of long-term poverty and tests the duration dependence on the probability to leave poverty. Special emphasis is given to the selection of the poverty line and inter-regional differences across...

China's impressive growth has been accompanied by huge rural-urban divide and social sacrifice of many including rural-urban migrants. Reflecting on the documentary 'Last Train Home' (2009) by Lixin Fan, this paper identifies and examines the life of rural-urban migrants in China in terms of...