We used a growth accounting method to analyze the sources of output growth in rice, wheat, corn and soybeans, the four most important crops in China's grain sector, during 1978-97.

The effect on production, trade and well-being from the granting of market access, removing export subsidies, and eliminating trade-distorting forms of direct support to farmers in WTO member countries is analysed from a world-wide general equilibrium perspective using the most recently...