Most of the poor in the developing countries are smallholder farmers. Improving their productivity is essential for reducing poverty. Despite small landholdings, a high degree of land fragmentation, and rising labor costs, agricultural production in China has steadily increased. If one treats...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to forecast the development performance of important economies in a smart city using mixed-frequency data. Design/methodology/approach This study introduces reverse unrestricted mixed-data sampling (RUMIDAS) to support vector regression (SVR) to develop a...

This Paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of the late...

As a largely rural society, most people in Nepal still depend upon agriculture as their major livelihood strategy. Therefore, it is important to improve the allocation efficiency of limited public expenditures to promote agricultural growth and poverty reduction. However, evaluating the returns...

Blood donation with compensation is considered as a social stigma. However, more people in the reference group donate blood often leads to less moral concern and more followers. Therefore, the behavior is likely to be influenced through one's interactions with neighbors, friends and relatives....

Key Features:Provides in-depth narratives on China's key economic reforms, with a first-hand account of the policy processes involvedAll the contributors were either directly involved in the reform process or have deep knowledge of the processIncludes introduction and conclusion chapters by the...

In the era of big data, the sizes of samples to be evaluated are expanding, but this situation also hinders the use of data envelopment analysis models. Furthermore, only efficient decision-making units (DMUs) can be used to evaluate the efficiency of DMUs. Thus, finding these efficient DMUs has...

Intro -- VALUES, EXPECTATIONS, AD HOCRULES, AND CULTURE EMERGENCE ININTERNATIONAL CROSS-CULTURALMANAGEMENT CONTEXTS -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF CHINESE TERMS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. BACKGROUND -- 1.2. RESEARCH QUESTIONS -- 1.3. RESEARCH...