Food processing has been widely recognized as a traditional, unskilled-labor intensive production. Yet rapid development in technology drives food processing into more sophisticated and technology-oriented industry. This paper utilizes a fixed effects model to test the hypothesis that the food...

Rapid economic growth in China’s booming regions has left other areas of the country lagging behind. We shed light on the poverty dynamics of one such region by analyzing a census-like survey of three administrative villages of Guizhou province in 2004, 2006, 2009, and 2011. While the absolute...

China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social compact and thus the political basis for economic growth and social development. The regional dimension of inequality— rural/urban, inland/coastal and provincial—dominates...

This paper summarizes the empirical research results presented and related discussions at the USAID-sponsored Workshop on Food Security and Economic Growth in the Sahel, held in Washington, D.C., September 6-8, 1989. This workshop focused on regional trade and food security policy dialogue in...

Previous studies commonly assume that the effects of introducing and ending cereal price subsidies on the poor’s nutrient intakes are symmetric. We question the assumption of symmetry and show that the poor’s nutrient intakes respond asymmetrically to declines and increases in the price of...

The necessity for developing rural talent resource in North Bay Economic Zone of Guangxi Province was analyzed. And the problems in the development were introduced. Related countermeasures on promoting the development of rural talent resource were put forward.

Official statistics are used to expatiate the general state of female labor force employment and transfer in rural China. According to the “structure†problem of female labor force transfer, it is pointed out that the overall cultural quality of rural women is relatively low, a large...

This study assesses how the transfer of rural labor to non-farm sectors affects China's national economy and the role the agricultural sector plays with respect to rural-urban migration. Econometric models using official Chinese statistics are used to: evaluate the marginal productivities of...

This paper studies the effect of local off-farm employment and migration on rural households’ technical efficiency of crop production using a five-year panel dataset from more than 2,000 households in five Chinese provinces. While there is not much debate about the positive contribution of...