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A Start for Mild Liberalization? Building Civil Society through Co-operative Dynamics in China

Zhao, Li - HIVA - Onderzoeksinstituut voor Arbeid en Samenleving, … - 2009

This paper aims to understand the society-state relationship in China, by exploring this dynamics with other types of organizations, i.e. civil society organizations with economic objectives. The dynamics of co-operatives can influence and interact with civil society dynamics. In this sense,...

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New Co-operatives in China: An Indigenous Model of Social Enterprises

Zhao, Li; Develtere, Patrick - HIVA - Onderzoeksinstituut voor Arbeid en Samenleving, … - 2010

This paper aims to fill the academic gaps in the study of the new co-operative movement in China and its innovative mechanisms, and to get a more comprehensive idea of new co-operatives operating as home-grown Chinese social enterprises, by exploring the dynamic process of co-operative practice...

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The Dualistic Model of European Agriculture - a Theoretical Framework for the Endogenous Development

SORTINO, Antonio; FA, Margherita CHANG TING - In: Economics and Applied Informatics (2009) 1, pp. 219-226

The European model of agriculture refers to a multifunctional and virtuous model of agriculture that is progressively substituting the productivist model of agriculture, that, in the recent past, has been supported by agricultural community policies. However, the European model of agriculture...

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Identifying the intergenerational effects of the 1959–1961 Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine on infant mortality

Song, Shige - In: Economics & Human Biology 11 (2013) 4, pp. 474-487

Using the 1959–1961 Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine as a natural experiment, this study examines the relationship …, the effect of mothers’ prenatal famine exposure status on children's infant mortality risk depends on the level of famine … severity. In regions of low famine severity, mothers’ prenatal famine exposure significantly reduces children's infant …

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Organisation et performance des filières alimentaires dans les pays du Sud : le rôle de la proximité. Synthèse des travaux pour l’habilitation à diriger des recherches

Moustier, P. - Unité Mixte de Recherche Marchés, Organisations, … - 2012

The document summarises the results of twenty years of coordination of research programmes on urban food supply in Africa and Asia in collaboration with national researchers. The main research questions are the following ones: What is the role of geographical and relational proximity in the...

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Forecasting Input Demand Shocks on China's Gross Value of Agricultural Output

Lambert, Dayton M.; Cho, Seong-Hoon - In: The Review of Regional Studies 38 (2008) 3, pp. 343-59

This paper applies recent developments in forecasting spatial process models to estimate the impact of input shocks on China's 1999 gross value added output (GVAO) in agriculture. A Cobb-Douglas production function allowing total factor productivity to vary across regions is used to forecast the...

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Study of Agricultural Productivity and Its Convergence across China's Regions

Li, Guoping; Zeng, Xianfeng; Zhang, Lizhen - In: The Review of Regional Studies 38 (2008) 3, pp. 361-79

Because it has a large, growing population but only a small share of land that can be cultivated, it is important for China to enhance its agricultural productivity through technological progress. Using data envelopment analysis, we decompose productivity into pure technical efficiency change,...

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Los efectos de las transformaciones agrícolas en los antiguos países socialistas: Algunas consideraciones para Cuba

Gonzalez Corzo, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the principal agricultural transformations in a selected group of former socialist countries in Asia and Eastern and Central Europe, using commonly-accepted indicators such as physical output, labor productivity, and agricultural yields, and offers some relevant...

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O desenvolvimento de cooperativas de produção coletiva de trabalhadores rurais no capitalismo. Limites e possibilidades

Christoffoli, Pedro Ivan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

This report has been prepared based on a comparative study which tries to analyze the process to establish and develop cooperatives of rural labourers collective production linked to the Landless Rural Labourers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra – MST). The main objective...

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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1988

One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...

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