This paper provides a survey of the recent empirical research on China's old health system (i.e. prior to the spate of … announced further reforms are a step in the right direction, the hoped-for improvements in China's health system will far more …

production and incomes of China's farmers by region and income group. By linking a global trade model to a national policy model … impacts of a Doha Round agreement on households differ significantly from those of China's WTO accession. China's economy …

China has become leading recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI). Meanwhile, an increasing share of global FDI is … going to many Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). What is the relationship between inward FDI of China and the … CEECs? We conceptualize the relationship according to three alternative paradigms: (1) China and the CEECs each exist in its …

This paper assesses the implications of China's trade and domestic policies for incentives to producers in China. It … incentives have been reduced. In the early 1980s, on average, China's domestic prices were far below international prices. There … narrowed the gap between world and China farmgate prices. By the mid-2000s, China's agriculture was operating with only small …

This contribution documents the effect of the global financial crisis on women's off-farm employment in China's rural …

cotton trade are expected to increase. A scenario modeling currency devaluation in China is run to test the stability of the …

reduction in China's import tariff on its pork and poultry demand and net import. Our analysis suggests that China's demand for … that a reduction in China's import tariffs will significantly increase its net pork and poultry imports and the U.S. will … capture most of the increases. Nevertheless, the impact on the market price in China and the U.S. is likely to be very small …

information especially in the context of developing countries such as China where livestock is becoming more important in the … domestic agricultural economy. We estimate TFP for four major livestock products in China employing the stochastic frontier … technical innovation in China's livestock sector, TE improvement has been relatively slow …

efficiency of China's crop breeding, an industry at the heart of the nation's food economy. Using data covering 46 wheat- and … maize-breeding institutes from 1981 to 2000, we estimate cost functions for the production of new varieties at China's wheat …