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Strategy, resource orchestration and e-commerce enabled social innovation in rural China [PDF]

, 2017
E-commerce enabled social innovation is becoming increasingly important as a way of reducing poverty in developing countries and yet has not been studied much by the IS community.
Cui, Lili, Cui, Miao, Newell, Sue, Pan, Shan L.   +3 more
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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Depression Takes a Toll on Academic Performance: Evidence from Rural Students in China

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
Ru Yan,1,2 Songqing Jin,3 Chen Ji,1 Cindy Feng,2 Huan Wang,2 Jiayang Lyu,1,2 Scott Rozelle2,4 1China Academy for Rural Development, School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; 2Stanford Center on China’s
Yan R, Jin S, Ji C, Feng C, Wang H, Lyu J, Rozelle S   +6 more
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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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Characterization of peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) under different PM2.5 concentration in wintertime at a North China rural site

, 2022
Zhuoyu Li, Guangzhao Xie, Hui Chen, Bixin Zhan, Lin Wang, Yujing Mu, Abdelwahid Mellouki, Jianmin Chen   +7 more
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CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN CHINA'S RURAL PERIODIC MARKETS [PDF]

Can we find traditional periodic markets in the milieu of market activity that abounds in contemporary China today? As reform is transforming the rural economy, is periodic markets activity being intensified or undermined?
Benzinger, Vince, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Regional Income Inequality in Rural China, 1985-2002: Trends, Causes and Policy Implications [PDF]

This paper depicts the trend of regional inequality in rural China for the period 1985-2002. The total inequality is decomposed into the so-called within- and between-components when China is divided into three regional belts (east, central and west).
Wan, Guanghua
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Early Feeding Practices and the Nutrition Status of Preschool Children in Rural Hubei Province, China [PDF]

, 1995
Jing Chen, Douglas Taren
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