Purpose: The need for a universal rural pension system has been heightened by demographic changes in rural China …, China’s Government introduced the New Rural Social Pension Program (NRSPP) in 2009, a voluntary and highly subsidized … authors examine whether the NRSPP affects the labor supply of the elderly population in China. Design …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate dynamic food demand in urban China, with use of a complete … DLES in the first stage and a LA/DAIDS in the second stage. Employing provincial aggregate data (1995-2010) from the China … urban household surveys, The authors estimated the demand elasticities for primary food products in urban China. Findings …

Purpose – This paper aims to measure and compare agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) growth in China and India …: efficiency and technical change. Findings – Comparing TFP growth in China and India it is found that efficiency improvement … played a dominant role in promoting TFP growth in China, while technical change has also contributed positively. In India …

of cotton into China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews first the possible arguments for raising the tariff … tariff on cotton has been a subject of intense debate in China and this paper is intended to provide an input into this … debate. The paper agrees that urgent action is clearly needed to mitigate the poverty problems in rural China, but concludes …

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of remittance income on rural households in China … a large data set from three distinct provinces of China and is among the first to investigate the different types of …

China. Design/methodology/approach – This paper adopts a time approach, meaning the paper is organized by initiate … provides a brief and general image of the Chinese RCMS and helps people to understand the RCMS in China.  …

ecological agriculture, which is precious heritage for China and the whole world. Originality/value – The originality of this …

Purpose – Since the start of the twenty‐first century China has stepped into a new stage of harmonious urban … brief review of China's rural reform with focus on the policy framework and changes since the reform of rural tax and fee … system in 2000. Next, the paper focuses on food security to discuss grain price increase and China's grain imports, then the …