The political economy of reforming agricultural support policies
Agricultural support policies cost more than US$800 billion per year in transfers to the farm sector worldwide.
Agricultural support policies cost more than US$800 billion per year in transfers to the farm sector worldwide.
Remarkable achievements in global food security have been made in the past several decades. Food production has grown significantly and outpaced the population growth.
Between 2009 and 2018, the Chinese government introduced a nationwide reform to register land title for rural individual households in over 600,000 villages.
Air pollution is a major environmental issue in China.
This paper uses Ghana as a case study to illustrate the extent to which Chinese manufacturing firms are driving manufacturing in an African country.
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Agricultural value chains: How cities reshape food systems
The literature has placed great emphasis on the advantages of competition on market efficiency while ignoring the downside of competition on health. Using a natural experiment in Taiwan, we show that excessive competition comes at a health cost.
Using imbalanced sex ratios, obtained from industrial firms in China & the national patent database, to test how female labor scarcity affects corporate innovation.
An industrial cluster is a locality with a high concentration of firms in related businesses.
"This paper reviews recent agricultural policy changes in China and presents estimates of domestic support for the period 1996-2005.
"A key objective of China's reform program was to reduce distortions in the economic system and enhance growth.
"A key objective of China's reform program was to reduce distortions in the economic system and enhance growth.
Because land is scarce, farmers in China increasingly have to rely on nonfarm activities to enhance their incomes. The functioning of rural nonfarm labor markets is therefore crucial in determining who has access to nonfarm employment.
The papers presented in this CDS Research Report centre around three PhD studies in the CDS research theme groups on Food Security and Food Markets in West Africa. They discuss problems of food security and food markets in Burkina Faso.