Fifty-four per cent of India’s population is under 25 years of age and, as per the 2011 Population Census, close to 34 per cent of India’s rural population belonged to the age group 15–34.

How does foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization shape structural transformation and demographic change in developing countries?

This paper offers one of the first evidence in a developing country context that transitory exposure to high temperatures may disrupt low-stakes cognitive activities across a range of age cohorts.

Developing country food supply chains have been pummeled by a series (and often a confluence) of shocks over the past several decades, including the Russia-Ukraine war, COVID-19, climate shocks from hurricanes to floods to droughts, animal and pla

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have received increasing attention in recent years as a promising means to address poverty challenges in rural China.

This paper examines the economic implications of the tariff increases by the United States and by China during the Trump era trade dispute and the gains from their potential removal.

Agricultural support policies cost more than US$800 billion per year in transfers to the farm sector worldwide.

Since the reform and opening-up in 1978, China’s income distribution gap has widened.

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.

2020 was marked by a global recession. Most Asian economies witnessed a major economic downturn or, at the minimum, major decelerations in economic growth of magnitudes not seen since the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.

We use household‐level panel data from China and a quantitative framework to document the extent and consequences of factor misallocation in agriculture.

Following the initial COVID-19 outbreak in Hubei Province in late 2019, starting in late January 2020 the Chinese government imposed draconian lockdown measures across the country to control the spread of the disease (Fang, Wang, and Yang 2020).

China’s rapid rise as a leading global exporter of manufacturing goods since its accession to the WTO in 2001 has been the focus of both admiration and, increasingly, concern, but China is also a large importer of goods, particularly agricultural

The Center for Enterprise Research and the Institute of Social Science Survey at Peking University, in collaboration with Ant Group Research Institute, conducted a new wave of Online Survey of Micro- and Small-Enterprises (OSOME) in March 2021.