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Rural non-farm development in China and India [PDF]

The dynamic rural nonfarm sector in China has been a major contributor to the country's remarkable growth, while in India the growth in output and employment in this sector has been rather stagnant.
Mukherjee, Anit, Zhang, Xiaobo
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Blood Pressure at Age 3-24 years in a Rural Community in China ♦ 700 [PDF]

, 1998
Xiaobin Wang, Binyan Wang, Fangzhen Zhang, Changzhong Chen, Jianhua Yang, Zhian Fang, Xiaobin Zhang, David C. Christiani, Scott T. Weiss, Barry Zuckerman, Xiping Xu   +10 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
wiley   +1 more source

A specific role of village doctors in reducing disparities: a quantile regression analysis of end-of-life medical care

BMC Palliative Care
Background In developing countries, the delivery of medical care to rural residents has been experiencing long-standing challenges and disparities. Since the 1960s, China has established the village doctors’ system to provide preventive and primary care ...
Yuan Fang, Shih-Ting Huang, Chengrui Xiao   +2 more
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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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Drug Prescribing in Rural Health Facilities in China: Implications for Service Quality and Cost [PDF]

, 1998
Shaokang Zhan, Shenglan Tang, Guo You-de, Gerald Bloom   +3 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Appreciation of the renminbi and urban-rural income disparity [PDF]

Although poverty has been significantly decreased in China over the last twenty years, this decrease has been highly unequal across the provinces and has brought increased disparity in urban and rural per capita income.
Ping Hua, Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney
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Dietary Vitamin C Intake and Lung Function in Rural China [PDF]

, 1998
Guocheng Hu, Xiaolei Zhang, Jianmin Chen, Richard Peto, T. Colin Campbell, Patricia A. Cassano   +5 more
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source