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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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang +4 more
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Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments [PDF]
In the past two decades, China has achieved world renown for reducing rural poverty. However, it is becoming harder to reduce poverty and inequality further in China, even though its economy continues to grow.
Zhang, Linxiu +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To increase farmer adoption of green practices, the EU Common Agricultural Policy includes both mandatory (conditionality) and voluntary instruments (eco‐schemes–ECS– and more demanding, multi‐annual agri‐environment‐climate measures –AECM–). Building on the experiment of Barreiro‐Hurle et al.
L. Sanchez‐Mata +4 more
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Thirty Years of Agricultural Transition in China (1977-2007) and the "New Rural Campaign" [PDF]
Agriculture in China has experienced a compelling growth in the early 1980s, a buoyant upbeat in the early 1990s, and an extended period of low growth after 1995.
Fock, Achim, Jia, Xiangping
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
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Reducing Inequality And Poverty During Liberalisation In China: Rural And Agricultural Experiences And Policy Options [PDF]
While liberalisation is designed to help growth and alleviate poverty by removing impediments that stop people and regions from specialising and trading, the process known as Core liberalisation (CL) has three components: it frees markets in goods and ...
Qi Zhang, Michael Lipton
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U.S. Agriculture, Biofuel Markets, and Trade: Challenges and Opportunities
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using an enhanced Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model (GTAP‐BIO), this study assesses how the expansion in demand for Electric Vehicles (EVs) and the reduction in exports of agricultural products induced by trade disputes negatively affect US agriculture.
Rayan Wolf, Farzad Taheripour
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Study on the Development of Distributed Energy in Northern China of Rural Energy Transformation [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesDistributed energy is a crucial breakthrough and focus for the green and low-carbon transformation of rural energy in China. It has experienced rapid development in recent years.
Liu Shaohua, Zhang Yingyuan, Zheng Shu
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Land Rights Insecurity and Temporary Migration in Rural China [PDF]
Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility.
Li, Shi +3 more
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