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Contract signing and utilization of family doctor services and their influencing factors among rural empty nesters in eastern, central, and western China: a cross-sectional study

Zhongguo gonggong weisheng
ObjectiveTo understand the contract signing and utilization of family doctor services among rural elderly empty nesters in eastern, central and western China and the factors influencing them, thereby providing a basis for improving the health of rural ...
Xiang ZHANG, Jinrong MI, Changli JIA, Lingli XU, Yingchun CHEN   +4 more
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Changes in regional inequality in rural China: decomposing the Gini index by income sources [PDF]

A new method is proposed to decompose inequality changes as measured by the Gini index into structural effects, real inequality effects and interactive effects.
Wan, Guang Hua
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Can outsourcing pest and disease control help reduce pesticide expenditure? Evidence from rice farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang, Wanglin Ma, Mengling Diao   +2 more
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Gender Differentials in the Payoff to Schooling in China [PDF]

This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately for rural and urban areas, and are based on a framework provided by the over education/required education/under education literature ...
Miller, Paul W., Ren, Weiwei
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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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Marketing Channel and Technology Adoption: Chinese Villages in the Local Horticulture Market [PDF]

China has been experiencing the substantial changes in agricultural sectors in the past decades. Interaction between diversified channels for marketing agricultural products and modern technology adoption are important for restructuring agriculture and ...
Dong, X., Huang, J., Reardon, Thomas, Rozelle, Scott, Wang, L.   +4 more
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Rural Restructuring Under Globalization in Eastern Coastal China: What Can be Learned From Wales?

Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2011
The differentiation of rural development in eastern coastal China has been exaggerated by the rapid rural restructuring under globalization, since economic reforms and an open-door policy were initiated in 1978.
Hualou Long, Michael Woods
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How to Understand Carbon Intensity? A Comparative Study of China and Europe Regarding the Relationship Between Rural Development Regimes and Carbon Emission Intensity

Proceedings
Background: China’s rural revitalisation policy has promoted the transformation of rural industries, which always neglect the “dual-carbon” goal in rural. Rural industrial upgrading in Europe can inspire sustainable rural development in China.
Jiaqi Li, Yishao Shi
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The effects of New Cooperative Medicine Scheme coverage on health outcomes and health care in rural China [PDF]

health insurance, rural population, China, Health Economics and Policy,
Chu, Xueling, Liu, Donald J., Wei, Longbao   +2 more
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