Reforms, the Weather, and Productivity Growth in China's Grain Sector
Reforms, the Weather, and Productivity Growth in China's Grain Sector

Author: Colin A. Carter

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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We use disaggregate county-level production data to study the effects of economic reform on China's grain production between 1980 and 1990. China's grain production area is divided into five regions based on geographic, agronomic, and meteorological criteria. Regional grain production functions are estimated, and weather is explicitly modeled. The institutional impact of economic reform was found to explain about 38% of the production growth from 1980 to 1985. This is lower than the estimates reported in many previous studies. Regional differences in efficiency gains from economic reform and in the effects of weather on grain production are found to be significant.

China's Rural Economy after WTO
China's Rural Economy after WTO

Author: Aimin Chen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1351161784

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China's Rural Economy after WTO discusses and analyses China's rural sector problems in detail, including the areas of poverty, income inequality, the gender gap, barriers of rural-urban migration, discrimination against rural workers, poor rural governance and the impact of WTO membership. It also tackles the important subjects of inadequate infrastructure and discriminatory credit services. Strategies to modernize China's rural economy are proposed and the relevant experiences and lessons of other countries are analyzed.

Productivity Growth in Agriculture
Productivity Growth in Agriculture

Author: K. O. Fugile

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9781845939229

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Increasing food prices have renewed concerns about long-term agricultural demand and supply in the global economy. This book looks at results, methods, and data on international agricultural productivity for a better understanding of long-run trends and the policies that determine them. By presenting an international assessment of total factor productivity growth in agriculture, including up-to-date empirical analysis for developed and developing countries and regions, it provides a response to the rising global scarcity of agricultural production. It is essential reading for researchers, poli.

Continuity and Change in China's Rural Development
Continuity and Change in China's Rural Development

Author: Louis Putterman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1993-08-05

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0195360087

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With the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China began a program of agricultural reform intended to increase productivity. This detailed study examines what the author sees as the major changes which moved the sector from a centrally planned to a more market-oriented system--replacement of collective teams with household farming, an increase of free markets for rural products, an increased state price for agricultural products, and greater freedom to expand off-farm activities--changes in the economic structure which facilitated greater productivity. It is unique in its focus on a single township, providing new data on the effects of reform at the village level.

Agricultural Reforms and Grain Production in China
Agricultural Reforms and Grain Production in China

Author: Shujie Yao

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1349235539

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This book explains how policy changes affect farmers' production incentives and efficiency of resource allocation within and outside agriculture in modern China, paying particular attention to the effects of technical inputs on yield and efficiency of spatial crop production pattern. Drawing experiences of agricultural development in different periods after independence and employing two different quantitative techniques, it concludes that government's long term tendency to undermine the role of agriculture, lack of state investment and the inconsistency of market reforms are three major threats to sustained grain production and agricultural growth in China.