The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different types of domestic waste disposal in rural China and the … sampled household data are used to describe the disposal of domestic waste in rural China, including domestic garbage and …

The emergence of China as an economic power is one of the miracle growth stories of the last part of the 20th century …). In fact, by the end of 2007 China had achieved many of its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). …

trends and determinants of agricultural R&D in China. Results show that while the public sector monopolized agricultural …

The overall aim of the present paper is to better understand the evolution of tubewell ownership in the North China … also show that the privatisation of tubewells has affected cropping patterns in the North China Plain. When villages shift …

A sample of 283 cotton farmers in Northern China was surveyed in December 1999. Farmers that used cotton engineered to …

Purpose – This paper seeks to understand the evolution of financial intermediation in the course of China's economic … collaborators from a 1998 survey of financial institutions, enterprises, and government officials in southern China. Findings … – Based on an empirical investigation of rural financial reforms, it is argued that China's two-decade long financial reform …

dataset, this paper examines rural households¡¯ credit access to all the sources in less developed areas in China, and … services in poor areas and have targeted more on the wealthy. In the presence of a large unmet demand for credit in rural China …

Purpose – This paper aims to explain why the quality of infrastructure projects in rural China differs from village to …/methodology/approach – Using primary data collected by the authors on three types of infrastructure projects in villages across China, they created …