Determinants of Rural Poverty Reduction and Pro-poor Economic Growth in China (2009)
Jikun Huang, Qi Zhang, Scott Rozelle
Abstract: China has made remarkable progress in its war against poverty since the launching of economic reform in the late 1970s. This paper examines some of the major driving forces of poverty...
Qiao, Fangbin, Wilen, James, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott
In this study we discuss why planting non-Bacillus thuringiensis (non-Bt) cotton as a refuge crop in China (and other developing countries) may not be economically optimal. To show this, we develop a...
Gibson, John, Deng, Xiangzheng, Boe-Gibson, Geua, Rozelle, Scott, Huang, Jikun
In this paper we have two objectives - one empirical; one methodological. Although China’s leaders are beginning to pay attention to health care in rural China, there are still concerns about...
Mapping poverty in rural China: How much does the environment matter? (2008)
Olivia, Susan, Gibson, John, Rozelle, Scott, Huang, Jikun, Deng, Xiangzheng
In this paper, we apply a recently developed small-area estimation technique to derive geographically detailed estimates of consumption-based poverty and inequality in rural Shaanxi, China. We also...
Mapping poverty in rural China: How much does the environment matter? (2008)
Olivia, Susan, Gibson, John, Rozelle, Scott, Huang, Jikun, Deng, Xiangzheng
In this paper, we apply a recently developed small-area estimation technique to derive geographically detailed estimates of consumption-based poverty and inequality in rural Shaanxi, China. We also...
Dynamically Optimal Strategies for Managing Resistance to Genetically Modified Crops (2008)
Fangbin Qiao, James Wilen, Scott Rozelle
This paper develops a dynamic model of the evolution of pest a population and pest resistance to characterize the socially optimal refuge strategy for managing a pest’s resistance to genetically...
Agricultural development and policy before and after China’s WTO accession (2008)
Chapter 2 of 'Agriculture and Food Security in China'
Understanding the water crisis in northern China: how do farmers and the government respond? (2008)
Wang, Jinxia, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Huang, Qiuqiong, Zhang, Lijuan
Chapter 13 of 'China’s Dilemma'
FCND DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 4 MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD DEMAND IN RURAL CHINA (2007)
FCND Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in China: A Political Economy Approach (2007)
Lee G. Branstetter, Robert C. Feenstra, Acknowledgements We, Chen Chun-lai, Wen Hai, David Li, ...
We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct investment, against the losses incurred by state-owned enterprises due to such...
Huang, Jikun, Liu, Yu, Martin, Will, Rozelle, Scott
Chapter 7 of 'China-Linking Markets for Growth'
Chen, Xinxin, Shi, Yaojiang, Rozelle, Scott
Abstract: Despite the rise in grade retention in China recently, little work has been done to understand the impact of grade retention on the educational performance of students in China. This paper...
Gibson, John, Olivia, Susan, Rozelle, Scott
This paper investigates whether there is a non-linear relationship between income and the private transfers received by households in developing countries. If private transfers are unresponsive to...
Gibson, John, Olivia, Susan, Rozelle, Scott
This paper investigates whether there is a non-linear relationship between income and the private transfers received by households in developing countries. If private transfers are unresponsive to...
Self-Employment with Chinese Characteristics: The Forgotten Engine of Rural China's Growth (2006)
Zhang, Jian, Zhang, Linxiu, Rozelle, Scott, Boucher, Steve
This article sketches a picture of the self-employment sector in rural China and examines the nature of its emergence. Using a randomly selected, nationally representative household-level data set...
SELF-EMPLOYMENT WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS: THE FORGOTTEN ENGINE OF RURAL CHINA'S GROWTH (2006)
Zhang, Jian, Zhang, Linxiu, Rozelle, Scott, Boucher, Steve
This article sketches a picture of the self-employment sector in rural China and examines the nature of its emergence. Using a randomly selected, nationally representative household-level data set...
ARE Update Volume 9, Number 1 (2005)
Sexton, Richard J., Rozelle, Scott, Huang, Jikun, Hu, Ruifa, Carter, Colin A., Chalfant, James A., ...
Co-editors' Introduction: Special Issue: China's Agricultural Boom, with Implications for California.Genetically Modified Rice in China: Effects on Farmers-in China and California.China's Strawberry...
U.S. - China Trade: Opportunities and Challenges Conference (2005)
Johnson, C. Donald, Clark, Chris, Zamarripa, Sam, Kassinger, Theodore, Riddell, Malcolm, Harris, H. Stephen, ...
The conference's speakers - business, legal and policy specialists from the government, academic and private sectors - discussed investment, services, market access, agriculture, textiles,...
Prices and Unit Values in Poverty Measurement and Tax Reform Analysis (2005)
Researchers often use unit values (household expenditures on a commodity divided by the quantity purchased) as proxies for market prices when calculating poverty lines and estimating consumer demand...
Prices and Unit Values in Poverty Measurement and Tax Reform Analysis (2005)
Researchers often use unit values (household expenditures on a commodity divided by the quantity purchased) as proxies for market prices when calculating poverty lines and estimating consumer demand...
Tracking Distortions in Agriculture: China and Its Accession to the World Trade Organization (2004)
Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Chang, Min
This article examines the impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization (wto) on prices in its agricultural sector. The analysis uses a new methodology to estimate nominal protection...
The Impact of Trade Liberalization on China's Agriculture and Rural Economy (2003)
Huang, Jikun., Rozelle, Scott.
SAIS Review - Volume 23, Number 1, Winter-Spring 2003
Gibson, John, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott
In urban China the Household Income and Expenditure Survey requires respondents to keep a daily expenditure diary for a full 12-month period. This onerous reporting task makes it difficult to recruit...
Gibson, John, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott
In urban China the Household Income and Expenditure Survey requires respondents to keep a daily expenditure diary for a full 12-month period. This onerous reporting task makes it difficult to recruit...
ARE Update Volume 5, Number 2 (2001)
Ligon, Ethan, Rozelle, Scott, Qiao, Fangbin, Huang, Jikun, Metcalfe, Mark
Contractual Arrangements for Fresh Produce in California; Plant Biotechnology in the Developing World: The Case of China; IPM and Pest Management Advice.
Property Rights Formation and the Organization of Exchange and Production in Rural China (1988)
Turner, Matthew A., Brandt, Loren, Rozelle, Scott
Most exchange of farm land in rural china is conducted by local governments rather than by decentralized land markets. We investigate the forces determining the reallocation behavior of village...
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John Gibson, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
In urban China the Household Income and Expenditure Survey requires respondents to keep a daily expenditure diary for a full 12-month period. This onerous reporting task makes it difficult to recruit...
China's food economy to the twenty-first century: supply, demand, and trade
Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Rosegrant, Mark W.
"This paper accounts for the structural changes now taking place in China ... and suggests that China is not likely to become either an enormous importer or exporter of grain. Ultimately, though,...
China and the future global food situation
Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Rosegrant, Mark W.
The future of China's grain economy has been the subject of much debate. Some observers predict rapidly increasing grain imports that will strain the world's productive capacity. Most of China's own...
Market development and food demand in rural China
This paper seeks to understand how market imperfections affect the behavior of consumers in China's rural economy. A theoretical and empirical model is developed and estimated using a household-level...
John Gibson, Susan Olivia, Scott Rozelle
This paper investigates whether there is a non-linear relationship between income and the private transfers received by households in developing countries. If private transfers are unresponsive to...
AGING, WELL-BEING, AND SOCIAL SECURITY IN RURAL NORTH CHINA
Dwayne Benjamin, Loren Brandt, Scott Rozelle
We explore the economic position of the elderly in rural North China. In particular, we examine the work patterns and incomes attributable to the elderly, and explore the role of extended families in...
Local Government Behavior and Property Right Formation in Rural China
Loren Brandt, Scott Rozelle, Matthew A. Turner
Secure land tenure is important to the development process, but China’s rural reforms have so far failed to provide farm households with this security. We examine the political economy of land...
Getting Rich and Eating Out: Consumption of Food Away from Home in Urban China
Ma, Hengyun, Huang, Jikun, Fuller, Frank H., Rozelle, Scott
The overall goal of this study is to better understand food-away-from-home (FAFH) consumption in urban China. We use national statistical sources and our own data to examine the trends in FAFH during...
Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Yuping Xie
The main goal of the paper is to address the impact of the WTO on China's agricultural sector. To accomplish this goal we address two sets of issues. First, we seek to provide measures of the...
China's War on Poverty: Assessing Targeting and the Growth Impacts of Poverty Programs
Linxiu Zhang, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
In this paper, we attempt to assess the effectiveness of China's Poverty Alleviation Programs in contributing to economic growth in poor areas. To meet this overall goal, we briefly describe China's...
Urban Demand for Dairy Products in China: Evidence from New Survey Data
Fuller, Frank H., Beghin, John C., Rozelle, Scott
In this paper we use 2001-2002 urban survey data we collected to analyze demographics, cultural factors, and purchasing behaviors influencing the consumption of fresh milk, yogurt, ice cream, and...
Grain for Green versus Grain: Conflict between Food Security and Conservation Set-Aside in China
Xu, Zhigang, Xu, Jintao, Deng, Xiangzheng, Huang, Jikun, Uchida, Emi, Rozelle, Scott
Tracking Distortions in Agriculture: China and Its Accession to the World Trade Organization
Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Min Chang
This article examines the impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization on prices in its agricultural sector. The analysis uses a new methodology to estimate nominal protection rates...
Prices and Unit Values in Poverty Measurement and Tax Reform Analysis
Researchers often use unit values (household expenditures on a commodity divided by the quantity purchased) as proxies for market prices when calculating poverty lines and estimating consumer demand...
John Gibson, Susan Olivia, Scott Rozelle
This paper investigates whether there is a non-linear relationship between income and the private transfers received by households in developing countries. If private transfers are unresponsive to...
Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Four Regions in China
Chen, Zhuo, Huffman, Wallace, Rozelle, Scott
In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data for Chinese farms grouped into each of four regions—North, Northeast, East, and Southwest—over 1995-1999. These frontier...
Irrigation, agricultural performance and poverty reduction in China
Huang, Qiuqiong, Rozelle, Scott, Lohmar, Bryan, Huang, Jikun, Wang, Jinxia
The overall objectives of our proposed paper is to: (a) systematically document the post-reform trends in agricultural performance in Asia, Europe, and the Former Soviet Union; (b) identify the main...
WANG, JINXIA, XU, ZHIGANG, HUANG, JIKUN, ROZELLE, SCOTT
The overall goal of our paper is to better understand water management reform in China s rural communities, especially focusing on the effect that improving incentives to water managers will have on...
Rapid Rise of China's Dairy Sector: Factors Behind the Growth in Demand and Supply, The
Frank H. Fuller, Jikun Huang, Hengyun Ma, Scott Rozelle
With the rapid growth in China's dairy industry, a number of recent papers have addressed either the supply or the demand trends for dairy products in China. None, however, presents a systematic...
Urban Demand for Dairy Products in China: Evidence from New Survey Data
Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Scott Rozelle
In this paper we use 2001-2002 urban survey data we collected to analyze demographics, cultural factors, and purchasing behaviors influencing the consumption of fresh milk, yogurt, ice cream, and...
China’s Dairy Market: Consumer Demand Survey and Supply Characteristics
Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Dinghuan Hu, Scott Rozelle
This report documents data and other information gathered from a survey of urban households in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, China. The survey was conducted as part of a research project aimed at...
Consumption of dairy products in urban China: results from Beijing, Shangai and Guangzhou
Frank Fuller, John Beghin, Scott Rozelle
Using urban survey data collected by the authors in 2001-02, this paper analyses demographics, cultural factors and purchasing behaviours influencing the consumption of fresh milk, yogurt, ice cream...
Jo Swinnen, Jim Vercammen, Scott Rozelle
Consumers have increasing demands for product standards. This has important implications for development. While there has been increasing attention to empirical work in this area, it is often...
Getting Rich and Eating Out: Consumption of Food Away from Home in Urban China
Hengyun Ma, Jikun Huang, Frank Fuller, Scott Rozelle
"The overall goal of this study is to better understand food-away-from-home (FAFH) consumption in urban China. We use national statistical sources and our own data to examine the trends in FAFH...
Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China
Hanan G. Jacoby, Guo Li, Scott Rozelle
We use household data from northeast China to examine the link between investment and land tenure insecurity induced by China's system of village-level land reallocation. We quantify expropriation...
ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND SCOPE AND THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF CHINA'S AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SYSTEM
Songqing Jin, Scott Rozelle, Julian Alston, Jikun Huang
This article investigates economies of scale and scope and other potential sources of improvements in the economic efficiency of China's crop breeding, an industry at the heart of the nation's food...
Irrigation, poverty and inequality in rural China *
Qiuqiong Huang, David Dawe, Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang, Jinxia Wang
This paper examines the impact of irrigation on rural incomes, poverty and the income distribution in rural China. The relationship between irrigation and income is examined using descriptive...
Evolution of tubewell ownership and production in the North China Plain *
Jinxia Wang, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
The overall aim of the present paper is to better understand the evolution of tubewell ownership in the North China Plain, especially focusing on the factors that determine ownership and its effect...
Chinese animal product consumption in the 1990s
Hengyun Ma, Allan Rae, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
Chinese animal product consumption behaviour was analysed for both urban and rural households using a complete regional consumption dataset that was augmented to include away-from-home consumption....
Dinghuan Hu, Thomas Reardon, Scott Rozelle, Peter Timmer, Honglin Wang
The supermarket revolution is spreading faster in China than anywhere else in the world. Supermarket sales are growing by 30-40% per year, 2-3 times faster than in other developing regions. This...
The sequencing of reform policies in China's agricultural transition
Alan De Brauw, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
This paper provides evidence regarding gains due to agricultural market liberalization in China. We empirically identify the different effects that incentive and farm restructuring reforms and...
Incentive contracts and bank performance
Hongbin Li, Scott Rozelle, Li-An Zhou
This paper, using unique survey data from the banking industry in rural China, investigates the effect of incentive contracts on performance. In the context of China's economic transition, we find...
Micro-credit programs and off-farm migration in China
Hongbin Li, Scott Rozelle, Linxiu Zhang
This paper seeks to evaluate effects of micro-credit projects on the poor. We utilize data that we collected in Sichuan Province in 1999 to investigate whether micro-credit projects have targeted the...
TRADE REFORM, THE WTO AND CHINA's FOOD ECONOMY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
The main goal of the paper is to address the policy changes that accompany China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and evaluate the various impacts of the agreement. To do so, we...
Livestock in China: Commodity-Specific Total Factor Productivity Decomposition Using New Panel Data
Allan N. Rae, Hengyun Ma, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
Studies of total factor productivity (TFP) in livestock production are rare, but when available provide useful information especially in the context of developing countries such as China where...
Producer Benefits from Input Market and Trade Liberalization: The Case of Fertilizer in China
Fangbin Qiao, Bryan Lohmar, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Linxiu Zhang
Reconciling the Returns to Education in Off-Farm Wage Employment in Rural China
Previous studies have found that the returns to education in rural China are far lower than estimates for other developing economies. In this paper, we seek to determine why previous estimates are so...
Can China continue feeding itself ? the impact of climate change on agriculture
Wang, Jinxia, Mendelsohn, Robert, Dinar, Ariel, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Zhang, Lijuan
Several studies addressing the supply and demand for food in China suggest that the nation can largely meet its needs in the coming decades. However, these studies do not consider the effects of...
Will the Biosafety Protocol hinder or protect the developing world: Learning from China's experience
Huang, Jikun, Zhang, Deliang, Yang, Jun, Rozelle, Scott, Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas
Water saving technology and saving water in China
Blanke, Amelia, Rozelle, Scott, Lohmar, Bryan, Wang, Jinxia, Huang, Jikun
The dynamics of Chinese rural households' participation in labor markets
Stephan Brosig, Thomas Glauben, Thomas Herzfeld, Scott Rozelle, Xiaobing Wang
The work is devoted to the dynamics of labor market participation of Chinese rural households. Based on a theoretical farm household framework the choice between four distinct labor market...
Are the poor benefiting from China's land conservation program?
UCHIDA, EMI, XU, JINTAO, XU, ZHIGANG, ROZELLE, SCOTT
This paper studies the impact of the largest conservation set-aside program in the developing world: China s Grain for Green program, on poverty alleviation in rural areas. Based on a large-scale...
Agricultural trade liberalization and poverty in China
HUANG, Jikun, JUN, Yang, XU, Zhigang, ROZELLE, Scott, LI, Ninghui
The Evolution of China's Rural Labor Markets During the Reforms
De Brauw, Alan, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Zhang, Linxiu, Zhang, Yigang
Success and Failure of Reform: Insights from the Transition of Agriculture
The paper analyzes the linkages between the reform strategies in transition countries and economic performance. We focus on agriculture because of the sharpness of the policy changes, fundamental...
Biotechnology as an alternative to chemical pesticides: a case study of Bt cotton in China
Huang, Jikun, Hu, Ruifa, Pray, Carl, Qiao, Fangbin, Rozelle, Scott
Pesticide productivity, host-plant resistance and productivity in China
Widawsky, David, Rozelle, Scott, Jin, Songqing, Huang, Jikun
Local Government Behavior and Property Right Formation in Rural China
Loren Brandt, Scott Rozelle, Matthew A. Turner
Secure land tenure is important to the development process, but China's rural reforms have so far failed to provide farm households with this security. We examine the political economy of land tenure...
The Nature of Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Implications of WTO Accession
The overall goal of our paper is to understand how WTO will affect the agriculture sector in China. To accomplish this goal we have two specific objectives. First, we seek to provide measures of the...
Sequencing and the Success of Gradualism: Empirical Evidence from China's Agricultural Reform
Alan DeBrauw, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
This paper provides evidence regarding gains to agricultural market liberalization in China. We empirically identify the different effects that incentive reforms and gradual market liberalization...
China’s Dairy Market: Consumer Demand Survey and Supply Characteristics
Fuller, Frank H., Beghin, John C., Hu, Dinghuan, Rozelle, Scott
This report documents data and other information gathered from a survey of urban households in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, China. The survey was conducted as part of a research project aimed at...
Got milk? The rapid rise of China's dairy sector and its future prospects
Fuller, Frank H., Huang, Jikun, Ma, Hengyun, Rozelle, Scott
With the rapid growth in China’s dairy industry, a number of recent papers have addressed either the supply or the demand trends for dairy products in China. None, however, presents a systematic...
Since the economic reform initiated in late 1978, China’s economy has been growing substantially., the annual growth rate of China’s GDP was 8.5% in 1979-84, 9.7 in 1985-95 and 9.2% in 1996-97....
Targeted poverty investments and economic growth in China
Rozelle, Scott, Park, Albert, Benziger, Vincent, Changqing Ren
Employment, Emerging Labor Markets, and the Role of Education in Rural China
Linxiu Zhang, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
The overall goal of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing assessment of China's rural labor markets. To meet this goal, we have three specific objectives. First, we will provide an update of the...
The Evolution of China's Rural Labor Markets during the Reforms
Alan DeBrauw, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Linxiu Zhang, Yigang Zhang
This paper contributes to the assessment of China's rural labor markets, while paying attention to whether these markets are developing in a manner conducive to the nation's modernization. According...
Poverty and Access to Infrastructure in Papua New Guinea
In this paper, our overall goal is to understand how effective access to infrastructure is in reducing poverty in PNG. To meet this goal, we examine poverty in PNG, and seek to show the relationship...
Local Government Behavior and Property Rights Formation in Rural China
Loren Brandt, Scott Rozelle, Matthew Turner
We examine the ongoing transition from centrally planned to market agriculture in rural China. In particular, we examine the devolution of land rights from village governments to villagers and the...
China's Accession to WTO and Shifts in the Agriculture Policy
The overall goal of our paper is to explore this question of how China's policy will likely respond as the nation enters the WTO. Specifically, we will have three objectives. First, we briefly review...
Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China
Hanan Jacoby, Guo Li, Scott Rozelle
This paper uses household data from Northeast China to examine the link between investment and land tenure insecurity induced by China's system of village-level land reallocation. We quantify...
The Creation and Spread of Technology and Total Factor Productivity in China's Agriculture
Songqing Jin, Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, Scott Rozelle
The study's overall goal is to create a framework for assessing the trends of China's national and international investment in agricultural research and to measure its impact on total factor...
This paper studies insider privatization in transition economies. We show theoretically that the underperformance of insider-privatized firms could be due to the manager-cum-owner's lack of...
Trade and Investment Liberalization and China's Rural Economy: Impacts and Policy Responses
While the forces of development and transition have been in part responsible for generating the progress that rural China has experienced during the past 20 years as well as being responsible for...
John Gibson, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
In urban China the Household Income and Expenditure Survey requires respondents to keep a daily expenditure diary for a full 12-month period. This onerous reporting task makes it difficult to recruit...
Small holders, Transgenic Varieties, and Production Efficiency: The Case of Cotton Farmers in China
Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, Scott Rozelle, Fangbin Qiao, Carl Pray
The overall goal of this study is to measure the effect of the impact that genetically modified cotton varieties have had on the production efficiency of small holders in farming communities in...
Discrimination in the allocation of goods between boys and girls within households in Papua New Guinea is examined using Deaton's (1989) outlay-equivalent ratio method. Adding a boy to the household...
Land Rights, Farmer Investment Incentives, and Agricultural Production in China
Guo Li, Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang
The overall goal of our paper is to estimate the impact of China's land rights on farm investment incentives and agricultural production. To meet the goal, the paper pursues three specific...
The Rise of Rural-to-Rural Labor Markets in China
Bryan Lohmar, Scott Rozelle, Changbao Zhao
The continued transfer of agricultural labor into the industrial sector is crucial to China's transformation into an industrial economy. We argue in this paper that rural industry offers an...
This paper seeks further evidence on the elasticity of calorie demand with respect to household resources. The case presented is for urban areas of Papua New Guinea, where just over one-half of the...
This article seeks further evidence on the elasticity of calorie demand with respect to household resources. The case presented is for urban areas of Papua New Guinea, where just over one-half of the...
The demographic evidence of gender bias in many countries has provided an impetus for finding ways to study the status of women in developing countries. Because of the lack of accurate...
Sandeep Mohapatra, Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang
We study how occupations evolve across space and time during the development of an economy. Using a data set on more than 200 villages from 8 provinces in China, we examine the main occupations that...
Working Until Dropping: Employment Behavior of the Elderly in Rural China
Lihua Pang, Alan De Brauw, Scott Rozelle
In rural areas of many developing countries, including China, people do not have the chance to retire, but rather have to continue working as they age. In this paper, we have two specific objectives....
Household Investment through migration in Rural China
In this paper, we strive to better understand how household investment is affected by participation in migration in rural China. After we describe investment patterns across different regions of...
Sequencing and the Success of Gradualism: Empirical Evidence from China's Agricultural Reform
Alan De Brauw, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
This paper provides evidence regarding gains to agricultural market liberalization in China. We empirically identify the different effects that incentive reforms and gradual market liberalization...
Self-Employment with Chinese Characteristics: The Forgotten Engine of Rural China's Growth
Jian Zhang, Linxiu Zhang, Scott Rozelle, Steve Boucher
This article sketches a picture of the self-employment sector in rural China and examines the nature of its emergence. Using a randomly selected, nationally representative household-level data set...
Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China
Jikun Huang, Yu Liu, Will Martin, Scott Rozelle
Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since...
Mapping Poverty in Rural China: How Much Does the Environment Matter?
Susan Olivia, John Gibson, Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang, Xiangzheng Deng
In this paper, we apply a recently developed small-area estimation technique to derive geographically detailed estimates of consumption-based poverty and inequality in rural Shaanxi, China. We also...
Migration and household investment in rural China
DE BRAUW, Alan, ROZELLE, Scott
In this paper, we demonstrate how household investment is affected by participation in migration in rural China. We both describe investment patterns across different regions of China and by...
Farmer Participation, the Dairy Industry, and the Rise of Dairy Production in China
Huang, Jikun, Wu, Yunhua, Yang, Zhijian, Rozelle, Scott, Fabiosa, Jacinto F., Dong, Fengxia
With rapid income growth, dairy production and consumption in China have increased significantly. This emergence of the dairy sector will provide opportunities for farmers to participate in a...
Development of Groundwater Markets in China: A Glimpse into Progress to Date
Zhang, Lijuan, Wang, Jinxia, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott
Summary The overall goal of the paper is to better understand the development of groundwater markets in northern China. Field survey shows that groundwater markets in northern China have emerged and...
Farmer Participation, the Dairy Industry, and the Rise of Dairy Production in China
Jikun Huang, Yunhua Wu, Zhijian Yang, Scott Rozelle, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Fengxia Dong
With rapid income growth, dairy production and consumption in China have increased significantly. This emergence of the dairy sector will provide opportunities for farmers to participate in a...
Farmer Participation, the Dairy Industry, and the Rise of Dairy Production in China
Jikun Huang, Yunhua Wu, Zhijian Yang, Scott Rozelle, Jacinto F. Fabiosa, Fengxia Dong
With rapid income growth, dairy production and consumption in China have increased significantly. This emergence of the dairy sector will provide opportunities for farmers to participate in a...
Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, Scott Rozelle, Carl Pray
Although genetically modified (GM) crops are being grown on increasing large areas in both developed and developing countries, with few minor exceptions, there has been almost no country that has...
China’s Dairy Market: Consumer Demand Survey and Supply Characteristics
Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Dinghuan Hu, Scott Rozelle
This report documents data and other information gathered from a survey of urban households in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, China. The survey was conducted as part of a research project aimed at...
Urban Demand for Dairy Products in China: Evidence from New Survey Data
Frank H. Fuller, John C. Beghin, Scott Rozelle
In this paper we use 2001-2002 urban survey data we collected to analyze demographics, cultural factors, and purchasing behaviors influencing the consumption of fresh milk, yogurt, ice cream, and...
Rapid Rise of China's Dairy Sector: Factors Behind the Growth in Demand and Supply, The
Frank H. Fuller, Jikun Huang, Hengyun Ma, Scott Rozelle
With the rapid growth in China's dairy industry, a number of recent papers have addressed either the supply or the demand trends for dairy products in China. None, however, presents a systematic...
Chen, Xinxin, Shi, Yaojiang, Rozelle, Scott
Abstract: Despite the rise in grade retention in China recently, little work has been done to understand the impact of grade retention on the educational performance of students in China. This paper...
Incentive Complementarity in China’s Rural Enterprises
Sandeep Mohapatra, Rachael Goodhue, Scott Rozelle
Bonding, China, Firms, Incentive Complementarity, Managerial Compensation,
IRRIGATION, AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN CHINA
Huang, Qiuqiong, Rozelle, Scott, Huang, Jikun, Wang, Jinxia
The overall goal of our paper is to understand the impact that irrigation investments in China have had on incomes, in general, and income and poverty alleviation in poor areas, in particular. The...
Chen, Xinxin, Huang, Qiuqiong, Rozelle, Scott, Zhang, Linxiu
Migration is widely known as one of the main ways of alleviating poverty in developing countries, including China. However, migration itself is not costless. In recent years, there is an emerging...
Uchida, Emi, Rozelle, Scott, Xu, Jintao
This study evaluates the off-farm labor response of rural households participating in the Grain for Green program in China, the largest conservation set-aside program in the developing world. Using a...
The Relationship between Farm Size and Productivity in Chinese Agriculture
Chen, Zhuo, Huffman, Wallace E., Rozelle, Scott
This paper examines the relationship between farm size and productivity in China's agriculture. In developing agriculture where there is a broad range of farm sizes, farm size and productivity or...
Livestock in China: Commodity specific total factor productivity decomposition using new panel data
Rae, Allan, Ma, Hengyun, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott
Studies of total factor productivity in livestock production are rare, but when available provide useful information especially in the context of developing countries such as China where livestock is...
Rural Water Saving Technology Adoption in Northern China: An Analysis of Survey Data
Blanke, Amelia, Rozelle, Scott, Lohmar, Bryan, Wang, Jinxia, Huang, Jikun
Sustainable use of water resources in the face of population and economic growth is of great importance in northern China, as it is in much of the world. Rapid expansion of irrigated agricultural and...
Expansion of China's Cities and Agricultural Production
Rozelle, Scott, Deng, Xiangzheng, Huang, Jikun, Uchida, Emi
In China, there is a growing debate on the role of cultivated land conversion on food security. This paper examines the changes of the area of cultivated land and its potential agricultural...
Irrigation Water Pricing Policy in China
Huang, Qiuqiong, Rozelle, Scott, Howitt, Richard, Wang, Jinxia, Huang, Jikun
Paper replaced with revised version 06/03/08
Uchida, Emi, Xu, Jintao, Rozelle, Scott
Since 1999, China has pursued one of the most ambitious conservation set-aside program's, known as Grain for Green. The overall goal of our paper is to analyze this program's cost-effectiveness and...
WATER MANAGEMENT REFORM AND THE CHOICE OF CONTRACTUAL FORM IN RURAL CHINA
Huang, Qiuqiong, Rozelle, Scott, Msangi, Siwa, Huang, Jikun, Wang, Jinxia
Inefficient performance of irrigation systems not only leads to a waste of water resources, but may also affect agriculture production, especially in regions facing a water stress problem. In rural...
TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF CHINESE GRAIN PRODUCTION: A STOCHASTIC PRODUCTION FRONTIER APPROACH
Chen, Adam Zhuo, Huffman, Wallace E., Rozelle, Scott
This article examines technical efficiency of the Chinese grain sector using the framework of stochastic production frontier. The results reveal that: the marginal products of labor and fertilizer...
ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND SCOPE, AND THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF CHINA'S AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SYSTEM
Jin, Songqing, Alston, Julian, Rozelle, Scott, Huang, Jikun
Faced with the task of reorganizing the largest agricultural research system in the world, officials in China are developing a strategy for reform. This paper investigates economies of scale and...
MARKET EMERGENCE AND THE RISE AND FALL OF BACKYARD HOG PRODUCTION IN CHINA
This paper first identifies an interesting pattern in farm household livestock production in many developing countries: an inverted-U shape relationship between household livestock production and the...
THE IMPACT OF MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES ON RURAL INCOMES IN CHINA
De Brauw, Alan, Taylor, J. Edward, Rozelle, Scott
New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) theory posits a complex relationship between migrants and household income generation. This paper uses NELM and original survey data to examine the impacts of...
THE COST OF WHEAT DIVERSITY IN CHINA
Meng, Erika C.H., Smale, Melinda, Rozelle, Scott, Ruifa, HU, Huang, Jikun
Initial efforts to estimate the effects on productivity of diversity among modern varieties in a production function framework have been unsatisfactory in at least two respects. First, the...
GRAIN PRICE STABILITY AND FARMER DECISION MAKING IN CHINA
Chen, Jing, Rozelle, Scott, Carter, Colin
In this paper we find that real grain prices in China have displayed increased volatility in the past decade. This is true for rice, wheat, corn, and for most of provinces. Farmers in China are found...
MIGRATION AND LOCAL OFF-FARM WORKING IN RURAL CHINA
Chen, Zhuo, Huffman, Wallace, Rozelle, Scott
The paper analyzes the decision-making of rural Chinese households with three alternatives: stay exclusively on farm, take local off-farm jobs, and migrate. Based on a survey of rural Chinese...
This paper aids researchers who are conducting microeconomic work in developing countries to more effectively collect farm production data. The discussion focuses on helping the researcher who has...
IMPACTS OF TRADE LIBERALIZATION ON AGRICULTURE AND POVERTY IN CHINA
Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Xu, Zhigang, Li, Ninghui
Food Security and Poverty,
China's GMO and Adoption of New Technology (Power Point Presentation)
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,
LIVESTOCK PRODUCT CONSUMPTION PATTERNS IN URBAN AND RURAL CHINA
Ma, Hengyun, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Rae, Allan
Chinese livestock products consumption behavior was analysed for both urban and rural households using a complete regional consumption dataset. Six livestock product expenditure share equations were...
LABOR MARKET LIBERALIZATION, EMPLOYMENT AND GENDER IN RURAL CHINA
Zhang, Linxiu, De Brauw, Alan, Rozelle, Scott
The major objective of this paper is to discuss the development of rural labor markets in China during the past two decades and understand how it has affected women. Using household survey data that...
DISTORTIONS TO INCENTIVES IN CHINA'S AGRICULTURE AND IMPLICATIONS OF WTO ACCESSION
Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Chang, Min
The overall goal of our paper will be to attempt to contribute to the empirically-based literature on the effects on China's agriculture of its accession to the WTO. In general, we seek to answer...
SMALL HOLDERS, TRANSGENIC VARIETIES, AND PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY: THE CASE OF COTTON FARMERS IN CHINA
Huang, Jikun, Hu, Ruifa, Rozelle, Scott, Qiao, Fangbin, Pray, Carl E.
The overall goal of this study is to measure the effect of the impact that genetically modified cotton varieties have had on the production efficiency of small holders in farming communities in...
SEQUENCING AND THE SUCCESS OF GRADUALISM: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM CHINA'S AGRICULTURAL REFORM
De Brauw, Alan, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott
This paper provides evidence regarding gains to agricultural market liberalization in China. We empirically identify the different effects that incentive reforms and gradual market liberalization...
Discrimination in the allocation of goods between boys and girls within households in Papua New Guinea is examined using Deaton’s (1989) outlay-equivalent ratio method. Adding a boy to the...
Gibson, John, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott
In urban China the Household Income and Expenditure Survey requires respondents to keep a daily expenditure diary for a full 12-month period. This onerous reporting task makes it difficult to recruit...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BEHAVIOR AND PROPERTY RIGHTS FORMATION IN RURAL CHINA
Brandt, Loren, Rozelle, Scott, Turner, Matthew A.
We examine the ongoing transition from centrally planned to market agriculture in rural China. In particular, we examine the devolution of land rights from village governments to villagers and the...
THE EVOLUTION OF CHINA'S RURAL LABOR MARKETS DURING THE REFORMS
De Brauw, Alan, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Zhang, Linxiu, Zhang, Yigang
This paper contributes to the assessment of China'’s rural labor markets, while paying attention to whether these markets are developing in a manner conducive to the nation’s modernization....
THE CREATION AND SPREAD OF TECHNOLOGY AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY IN CHINA'S AGRICULTURE
Jin, Songqing, Huang, Jikun, Hu, Ruifa, Rozelle, Scott
The study’s overall goal is to create a framework for assessing the trends of China'’s national and international investment in agricultural research and to measure its impact on total factor...
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN CHINA'S RURAL PERIODIC MARKETS
Rozelle, Scott, Benzinger, Vince, Huang, Jikun
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...
CHINA'S ACCESSION TO WTO AND SHIFTS IN THE AGRICULTURE POLICY
The overall goal of our paper is to explore this question of how China’'s policy will likely respond as the nation enters the WTO. Specifically, we will have three objectives. First, we briefly...
THE NATURE AND DISTORTIONS TO AGRICULTURAL INCENTIVES IN CHINA AND IMPLICATIONS OF WTO ACCESSION
The overall goal of our paper is to understand how WTO will affect the agriculture sector in China. To accomplish this goal we have two specific objectives. First, we seek to provide measures of the...
EMPLOYMENT, EMERGING LABOR MARKETS, AND THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN RURAL CHINA
Zhang, Linxiu, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott
The overall goal of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing assessment of China’'s rural labor markets. To meet this goal, we have three specific objectives. First, we will provide an update of...
This paper studies insider privatization in transition economies. We show theoretically that the underperformance of insider-privatized firms could be due to the manager-cum-owner's lack of...
This paper seeks further evidence on the elasticity of calorie demand with respect to household resources. The case presented is for urban areas of Papua New Guinea, where just over one-half of the...
HAZARDS OF EXPROPRIATION:TENURE INSECURITY AND INVESTMENT IN RURAL CHINA
Jacoby, Hanan G., Li, Guo, Rozelle, Scott
This paper uses household data from Northeast China to examine the link between investment and land tenure insecurity induced by China’'s system of village-level land reallocation. We quantify...
TRADE AND INVESTMENT LIBERALIZASTION AND CHINA'S RURAL ECONOMY: IMPACTS AND POLICY RESPONSES
While the forces of development and transition have been in part responsible for generating the progress that rural China has experienced during the past 20 years as well as being responsible for...
LAND RIGHTS, FARMER INVESTMENTS INCENTIVES, AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN CHINA
Li, Guo, Rozelle, Scott, Huang, Jikun
The overall goal of our paper is to estimate the impact of China's land rights on farm investment incentives and agricultural production. To meet the goal, the paper pursues three specific...
THE RISE OF RURAL-TO-RURAL LABOR MARKETS IN CHINA
Lohmar, Bryan, Rozelle, Scott, Zhao, Changbao
The continued transfer of agricultural labor into the industrial sector is crucial to China'’s transformation into an industrial economy. We argue in this paper that rural industry offers an...
Rozelle, Scott, Swinnen, Johan F.M.
The overall objectives of our proposed paper is to: (a) systematically document the post-reform trends in agricultural performance in Asia, Europe, and the Former Soviet Union; (b) identify the main...
POVERTY AND ACCESS TO INFRASTRUCTURE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
In this paper, our overall goal is to understand how effective access to infrastructure is in reducing poverty in PNG. To meet this goal, we examine poverty in PNG, and seek to show the relationship...
Wang, Honglin, Dong, Xiaoxia, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Reardon, Thomas
The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As the demand for vegetables, fruit, nuts and other high valued products have risen,...
Groundwater Entrepreneurs in China: Selling Water to Meet the Demand for Water
Zhang, Lijuan, Wang, Jinxia, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott
The overall goal of our paper is to better understand the development of groundwater markets in northern China. In particular, we focus on the factors that determine the development of groundwater...
Insuring Rural China's Health? An Empirical Analysis of China's New Cooperative Medical System
Zhang, Linxiu, Wang, H. Holly, Rozelle, Scott, Yan, Yuanyuan
Although health is an important factor in economic development, millions of China's rural residents have no medical coverage. Nearly 10 percent of those that were sick in rural China consciously did...
Lohmar, Bryan, Wang, Jinxia, Rozelle, Scott, Huang, Jikun, Dawe, David
Water shortages in important grain-producing regions of China may significantly affect China's agricultural production potential and international markets. Falling ground-water tables and disruption...
International Relations/Trade,
Water management institutional reform: A representative look at northern China
Huang, Qiuqiong, Rozelle, Scott, Wang, Jinxia, Huang, Jikun
Our goal is to provide information regarding water management reform in China by increasing understanding of newly emerging water institutions and identifying factors that lead to the creation of...
Growth, population and industrialization, and urban land expansion of China
Deng, Xiangzheng, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Uchida, Emi
China is experiencing urbanization at an unprecedented rate over the last two decades. The overall goal of this paper is to understand the extent of and the factors driving urban expansion in China...
Uchida, Emi, Rozelle, Scott, Xu, Jintao
The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Chen, Xinxin, Huang, Qiuqiong, Rozelle, Scott, Zhang, Linxiu
Migration is widely known as one of the main ways of alleviating poverty in developing countries, including China. However, migration itself is not costless. In recent years, there is an emerging...
Uchida, Emi, Rozelle, Scott, Xu, Jintao
This study evaluates the off-farm labor response of rural households participating in the Grain for Green program in China, the largest conservation set-aside program in the developing world. Using a...
Contribution of Wheat Diversity to Total Factor Productivity in China
Jin, Songqing, Meng, Erika C.H., Hu, Ruifa, Rozelle, Scott, Huang, Jikun
The impact of wheat diversity on the productivity of wheat in China is examined using total factor productivity (TFP) and an instrumental variable approach. TFP in seven key wheat-producing provinces...
John Gibson, Xiangzheng Deng, Geua Boe-Gibson, Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang
In this paper we have two objectives - one empirical; one methodological. Although China’s leaders are beginning to pay attention to health care in rural China, there are still concerns about...
Jun Yang, Huanguang Qiu, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
This article addresses how China is being affected by and is responding to the world food crisis. So far, Chinese officials have responded to higher world prices by drawing down stocks and limiting...
Emi Uchida, Scott Rozelle, Jintao Xu
This study evaluates the labor response of rural households participating in the Grain-for-Green program in China, the largest payments for ecosystem services program in the developing world. Using a...
Water management reform and the choice of contractual form in China
HUANG, QIUQIONG, ROZELLE, SCOTT, MSANGI, SIWA, WANG, JINXIA, HUANG, JIKUN
This paper explains the puzzling fact that in organizing the management of surface water, village leaders have provided incentives to canal managers in some areas, but not in all. Our study indicates...
Jikun Huang, Yunhua Wu, Scott Rozelle
This study examines linkages between off-farm labor markets and the labor allocated by farmers to on-farm production of fruit crops. Using a stratified random sample of rural households in Shandong...
Olivia, Susan, Gibson, John, Smith, Aaron, Rozelle, Scott, Deng, Xiangzheng
Poverty maps provide information on the spatial distribution of welfare and can predict poverty levels for small geographic units like counties and townships. Typically regression methods are used to...
The impact of climate change on China's agriculture
Jinxia Wang, Robert Mendelsohn, Ariel Dinar, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Lijuan Zhang
This article examines how expected changes in climate are likely to affect agriculture in China. The effects of temperature and precipitation on net crop revenues are analyzed using cross-sectional...
SELF-EMPLOYMENT WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS: THE FORGOTTEN ENGINE OF RURAL CHINA'S GROWTH
JIAN ZHANG, LINXIU ZHANG, SCOTT ROZELLE, STEVE BOUCHER
This article sketches a picture of the self-employment sector in rural China and examines the nature of its emergence. Using a randomly selected, nationally representative household-level data set...
Political Economy of Agricultural Distortions in Transition Countries of Asia and Europe
Rozelle, Scott, Swinnen, Johan
The paper analyzes the political and institutional factors which are behind the dramatic changes in distortions to agricultural incentives in the transition countries in East Asia (China and...
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China
Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Martin, Will, Liu, Yu
Distorted incentives, agricultural and trade policy reforms, national agricultural development, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade, F13, F14, Q17, Q18,
Hongmei Yi, Linxiu Zhang, Kim Singer, Scott Rozelle, Scott Atlas
The overall goal of the paper is to understand the progress of the design and implementation of China's New Cooperative Medical System (NCMS) program between 2004 (the second year of the program) and...
Hu, Ruifa, Pray, Carl, Huang, Jikun, Rozelle, Scott, Fan, Cunhui, Zhang, Caiping
China has been one of the leaders in agricultural biotechnology research and the adoption of transgenic plants. Despite this, critics argue that China's biotechnology policies could be improved to...
Farm Pesticide, Rice Production, and Human Health
Jikun Huang, Fangbin Qiao, Linxiu Zhang, Scott Rozelle
Pesticides of various kinds have been used on a large scale in China since the 1950s to protect crops from damages inflicted by insects and diseases. Annual pesticide production reached more than...
Ignoring The Labels: An Analysis of Pesticide Use in China
Jikun Huang, Fangbin Qiao, Linxiu Zhang, Scott Rozelle
China, like many developing countries, has seen a dramatic increase in the use of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals over the last twenty years. In order to get a clearer understanding of...
Economic Consequences of Urbanisation and Urbanisation Policy in China
Josef C Brada, Belton M Fleisher, Scott Rozelle, Johan Swinnen
Effect of Migration on Children's Educational Performance in Rural China
Xinxin Chen, Qiuqiong Huang, Scott Rozelle, Yaojiang Shi, Linxiu Zhang
Migration is one of the main ways of alleviating poverty in developing countries, including China. However, there are concerns about the potential negative effects of migration on the educational...
Regulation of local governments and enterprise formation in rural China
Jian Zhang, Sandeep Mohapatra, Steve Boucher, Scott Rozelle
With the rise of the private sector in rural China, power has been shifting from the hands of local government officials to the hands of entrepreneurs. In this situation, economic theory offers two...
Grain for Green: Cost-Effectiveness and Sustainability of China’s Conservation Set-Aside Program
Emi Uchida, Jintao Xu, Scott Rozelle
Since 1999, China has pursued Grain for Green, an ambitious conservation set-aside program to prevent soil erosion. This paper evaluates its cost-effectiveness and sustainability. The results...
Changes in trade and domestic distortions affecting China's agriculture
Huang, Jikun, Liu, Yu, Martin, Will, Rozelle, Scott
This paper assesses the implications of China's trade and domestic policies for incentives to producers in China. It uses a price comparison methodology (nominal rates of assistance--at the border...
ROZELLE, Scott, SWINNEN, Johan F.M.
The dramatic transition from Communism to market economies across Asia and Europe started in the Chinese countryside in the 1970s. Since then more than a billion of people, many of them very poor,...
Introduction to the symposium on agriculture in transition
FLEISHER, Belton M., BRADA, Josef, ROZELLE, Scott, SWINNEN, Johan
Transition Economies Agriculture China Central and Eastern Europe
Farm technology and technical efficiency: Evidence from four regions in China
Chen, Zhuo, Huffman, Wallace E., Rozelle, Scott
In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data of Chinese farms grouped into each of four regions--North, Northeast, East, and Southwest--over 1995-1999. These frontier...
Reforming state-market relations in rural China
Because of the political importance of stable and affordable food prices, governments in transitional economies in Europe and Asia fkequently struggle to balance the desire to maintain state controls...
Fangbin Qiao, James Wilen, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle
In this study we discuss why planting non-Bacillus thuringiensis (non-Bt) cotton as a refuge crop in China (and other developing countries) may not be economically optimal. To show this, we develop a...
Quality and Inclusion of Small Producers in Value Chains: A Theoretical Note
Thijs Vandemoortele, Scott Rozelle, Tao Xiang
This paper develops a formal theory of the endogenous process of the introduction of high quality products in developing countries. Initial differences in income and capital and transaction costs are...