The paper offers an updated picture of the policies implemented by the government of the Guangdong Province (China) to …

in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys — one rural and one urban …

This paper presents a few stylized facts on the patterns of China's industrialization by computing a set of multi … and 2004. Our results show that China's rapid industrialization is characterized by the following patterns: industries … non-clustered ones. Together these patterns suggest that China's industrialization process is largely cluster …

Should Asia feel anxious about China's expansion? We look for the answer through the Bayesian estimation of a two …-country New Keynesian model of production fragmentation covering ten Asian economies, including China. The estimates show that vis …-à-vis China, the developed Asia has a more fragmented production structure with higher domestic value-added embodied in …

Productivity and efficiency change lies at the heart of achieving sustainable growth in China. This paper computes and …

challenges for food safety and quality regulators. China, as the world's biggest food producer, has the fastest growing share of … collected in the leading aquaculture producing provinces of southern China. The average net income per farmer of our sample was … to adopt enhanced food safety practices such as those required for China GAP, and No Public Harm voluntary certifications …

Grain self-sufficiency is one of the most important agricultural policy goals in China. With only modest imports, China …

Using a panel dataset of 31 provinces in China, this paper computes the output-oriented Malmquist productivity indexes … and their decomposition in China's agricultural sector over the period 1994–2008. In the second-stage regression, which … “equilibrium” efficiency and a robust convergence in China's agricultural efficiency; the latter has also been enhanced by China …

institutional changes during China's market reform, giving special attention to the integrated effects of economic and political … much risk they will take. China's market reform has been largely framed in the prospects of economic gains, for which the … continuously growing private sector is the driving force. China's central government adopts a growth-oriented incremental reform …