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
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Remarkable achievements in global food security have been made in the past several decades. Food production has grown significantly and outpaced the population growth.
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.
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).
Small and medium enterprises amidst the pandemic and reopening: Digital edge and transformation
Using administrative universal firm registration data as well as primary offline and online surveys of small business owners in China, we examine (i) whether the digitization of business operations helps small and medium enterprises (SMEs) better
The impacts of COVID-19 on migrants, remittances, and poverty in China: A microsimulation analysis
Chinese migrant workers are very exposed to the shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Falling remittances adversely affect their families who rely on remittance incomes.
During recent decades, agriculture has developed rapidly in China, ensuring food security and enriching residents’ diets.
The unsustainable agricultural production mode of “high input and high output” has imposed a heavy burden on China’s ecosystems, and severely restricted the sustainable development of the country’s agrifood systems.
With rapid improvements in agricultural productivity and residents’ income, China has made remarkable advances in reducing hunger and malnutrition, as well as quality improvements in residents’ diets, witnessed by the progressively increasing cons
Rethinking agrifood systems for the post-COVID world
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 has caused a global public health crisis. It has also severely damaged the world’s agrifood systems.
One year after COVID: The challenges and outlook of Chinese micro and small enterprises
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.
The impact of COVID-19 on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Evidence from two-wave phone surveys in China
This paper examines the short-term and mid-term impact of COVID-19 restrictions on SMEs, based on two waves of phone interviews with a previously surveyed large SME sample in China.
Initial impacts & resilience of China's food systems during the pandemic and the government's responses & long-term efforts to promote resilience.
SARS-CoV-2 wave two surveillance in East Asia and the Pacific: Longitudinal trend analysis
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound global impact on governments, healthcare systems, economies, and populations around the world.
The zoonotic diseases, agricultural production, and impact channels: Evidence from China
The outbreak and wide spread of COVID-19 poses a new threat to global food security.