Purpose–Since the reform and opening-up policy, the long-term problem of loans became more and more serious when China … provinces and cities of China during 1994-2005, this paper investigates the determinants on the maturity of bank credit using …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand farmers’ moral hazard in safe farming in China and quantify the … survey data of 560 vegetable and fruit farmers in China. Findings – The result reveals that farmers’ moral hazard in safe … in China, which caused widespread social concern. These affairs may spark a rethink for farmers about how to produce safe …

of the major food safety incidents in China and potential solutions are explored. Findings - The paper finds that food …

from a national household survey conducted by the Research Center for the Rural Economy (RCRE) at China's Ministry of … Agriculture. More specifically, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate the scale and dispersion of China's farm-household hired …) of household survey data collected by the Research Center for Rural Economy at China's Ministry of Agriculture. Findings …

agri-food processing and exporting in China. Design/methodology/approach – Survey data collected from 80 agri-food SMEs in … inter-personal trust significantly contribute to a high level of relationship satisfaction for agri-food SMEs in China. In … business relationships for SMEs in China. Originality/value – The paper extends our understanding of relationship (guanxi …

Purpose – This paper aims to explain why the quality of infrastructure projects in rural China differs from village to …/methodology/approach – Using primary data collected by the authors on three types of infrastructure projects in villages across China, they created …

China. Design/methodology/approach – The authors’ research uses the two-stage residuals inclusion estimation, 2SRI, to deal … choice of return migrants in rural China. They also extend the existing studies in two directions: first, they use nationally …-representative data from the general social survey of China carried out in 2006 to examine the relationship between the return rural …

line for rural China derived by the SPL methodology is higher than the low income line used by the National Bureau of … implications – The findings suggest that poverty lines for rural China preferably should consider not only spatial differences in … first application of the SPL approach to rural China. …