China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 1 Issue 3

Iron deficiency and its impact on academic achievement

Yun Li

It is widely accepted that good health and education are important components of human capability. Although China has made encouraging progress in education and health causes, the…

Financial repression in China's agricultural economy

Lin He, Calum Turvey

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether or not financial repression exists in the saving and investment activities of farm households in rural areas of China.

Impact of credit disbursed by commercial banks on the productivity of wheat in Faisalabad district

Muhammad Khalid Bashir, Zulfiqar Ahmad Gill, Sarfraz Hassan

The agriculture sector is the single largest contributor to the national income (gross domestic product – (GDP)) of Pakistan. Wheat is the main staple diet of the people of…

China's rural poverty line and the determinants of rural poverty

Xiuqing Wang, Juan Liu, Shujie Yao, Xian Xin

The purpose of this paper is to yield more plausible rural poverty lines for China and then assess the determinants of rural poverty using these newly revised rural poverty lines.

The globalisation of the wine industry: new world, old world and China

Michael Thorpe

As the Chinese economy continues to develop, rising incomes for many people has meant significant shifts in consumption patterns. Over the past several years, per capita wine…

Evaluation of new socialist countryside development in China

Xiang‐Yu Guo, Zhi‐Gang Yu, Todd Schmit, Brian Henehan, Dan Li

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the level of new socialist countryside (NSC) construction among different provinces in China. China prioritized a NSC reform policy in…

Rigid growth characteristic of demand for oil in China's agro‐production

Lihong Wang, Zhihong Tian

The demand for oil in agricultural production increases continuously with the world oil price soaring, reflecting a rigid growth characteristic, but there are no clear reasons for…

A study on labor mobility and human capital spillover

Jinghua Zhang, Fangwei Wu, Deyuan Zhang, Yongmin Wang

The purpose of this paper, starting from a theoretical framework, is to analyze the spillover effects of human capital brought by labor mobility and their influence on the public…