An economy-wide analysis of impacts on Taiwan of reducing tariff escalation...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to assess the degree of tariff escalation in Taiwan's agriculture-related commodities and the economy-wide impact of tariff harmonization....
View ArticleHow much did the return of rural migrant labor affect China's national economy?
AbstractPurpose– What this paper aims to tackle is how much did the return of rural migrant labor during the financial crisis affect China's GDP and the growth rate of the national economy....
View ArticleDo China's food safety standards affect agricultural trade? The case of dairy...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine how China's food safety standards affect agricultural trade in the case of dairy products. Design/methodology/approach– A gravity...
View ArticleSteadying the ladder: China's agricultural and rural development engagement...
AbstractPurpose– This paper aims to draw lessons from China's development experiences, particularly in the areas of agricultural and rural development, to increase growth and reduce poverty in Africa...
View ArticleIdentifying risks inherent in farmer cooperatives in China
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate risks faced by farmer cooperatives in China, using farmer cooperatives in Zhejiang province as a case. Specifically, the authors identify...
View ArticleEvolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets. Design/methodology/approach– To...
View ArticleThe demand for credit, credit rationing and the role of microfinance:...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this study is to examine the demand for credit and credit rationing conducted by formal, informal and emerging microfinance lenders in the four poor counties of China....
View ArticleProduct information and Chinese consumers’ willingness-to-pay for fair trade...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate Chinese consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for fair trade coffee given different amount of product information. Although coffee is becoming...
View ArticleFood safety incidents’ influence on the food industry: How food companies...
AbstractPurpose– The purposes of this paper are to find out the correlations between the changes of food companies’ environments and the strategic reactions of food companies after the media disclosed...
View ArticleCompetitiveness analysis of Egyptian cotton exports with special focus on the...
AbstractPurpose– The expected growth of China's cotton imports along with Egypt's quest for penetrating new cotton importing markets have together attracted the authors to investigate the...
View ArticleMismatch: Land reallocations, recovery land rental and land rental market...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relative impacts of full-scale land reallocation (FLR) and partial-scale land reallocation (PLR) on household land rental behavior in rural...
View ArticleHedging effectiveness of weather index-based insurance in China
AbstractPurpose– Maize production in China is exposed to pronounced yield risks, in particular weather risk, which is one of the most important and least controllable sources of risk in agriculture....
View ArticleConsumer willingness to pay for organic fresh milk in Taiwan
AbstractPurpose– The Fresh Milk Logo certifies that dairy product sold in Taiwan really is fresh milk. However, the logo represents only a moral pledge by the manufacturer. No method exists for...
View ArticleMicrofinance through non-governmental organizations and its effects on formal...
AbstractPurpose– Internationally, microfinance run by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is often considered an important approach to meeting the credit demand of rural households, particularly...
View ArticleDemocracy learning, election quality and voter turnout
China Agricultural Economic Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 143-155, February 2015. Purpose – After two decades of village elections, the quality of village elections, rather than the utility of...
View ArticleThe education treatment effect on the non-farm income of Chinese western...
China Agricultural Economic Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 122-142, February 2015. Purpose – Education plays an important role in improving Chinese rural laborers’ non-farm incomes. However, in...
View ArticleEfficiency of weather derivatives for Chinese agriculture industry
China Agricultural Economic Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 102-121, February 2015. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of temperature-based weather derivatives (WD) in...
View ArticlePublic investment in agricultural R&D and extension
China Agricultural Economic Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 86-101, February 2015. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of public investment in agricultural R&D and...
View ArticleIncome inequality and rural poverty in China
China Agricultural Economic Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 65-85, February 2015. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply a poverty level decomposition approach to decompose the poverty by...
View ArticleFactors affecting farmers’ participation in China’s group guarantee lending...
China Agricultural Economic Review, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 45-64, February 2015. Purpose – Based on a survey of 897 farm households, the purpose of this paper is to build a framework using cluster...
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