After three decades of continuous investments in water conservancy and irrigation works, Chinese agriculture seems to have now entered a stage of sustained growth. However, an increasing amount of form surplus which can be used to the benefit of industrialization and rural economic...

Since 1980 a new social form has been developing along the China-Hongkong border, officially known as the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) and considered by many to be an attempt to implant capitalism into the communist society. The purpose of this study is to relate what is actually...

The article shows that ever since the introduction of new seed varieties in the mid-1960s, there has been a sharp accentuation of regional disparities in Indian agriculture. A substantial proportion of the incremental production originated in 5 or 6 advanced states, and the poorer eastern states...

The relative merits of import substitution and export promotion as alternative growth strategies for developing countries have been discussed extensively in the literature. Changes in the export structure of slow-growing economies such as India have received much less attention. Industrial...

This study emphasizes the structure of the international market and the dominant technology-based competitive strategies. It argues that technology has become the most significant tool for market competition. The emergence of new design concepts pushes the techno-economic performance of...