Public expenditure in agriculture is one of the most important policy instruments for government in developing countries to address food security and poverty reduction. This paper provides a comprehensive review of agricultural policy and public agricultural expenditure (PAE) in China. China...

Industrial wages have increased significantly in China in recent years. At the same time, there have been widening gaps in wages across provinces. These trends are likely to prompt company headquarters to relocate. The relocation choices of headquarters are likely to change under different...

This paper examines a possible connection between China's massive rural to urban migration and high chemical fertilizer use rates during the late 1980s and 1990s. Using panel data on villages in rural China (1987-2002), we find that labor out-migration and fertilizer use per hectare are...