China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 14 Issue 1

Evolution of the rural social security system in a large country over 35 years: institutional transformation and the Chinese experience

Xuan Huo, Mingang Lin

This paper aims to review the institutional evolution of China's rural social security system in the past 35 years, focusing on major policy transformations of the rural social…

Maize storage losses and its main determinants in China

Meiyi Zhang, Yi Luo, Dong Huang, Haimin Miao, Laping Wu, Junfeng Zhu

The purpose of this study was to estimate on-farm maize storage losses and to empirically analyse the main determinants of maize storage losses in China.

Are there dynamic productivity gains from agricultural trade?

Wanki Moon

The primary purpose of this paper is to take an in-depth look at the question of whether liberalizing trade in agriculture can generate dynamic productivity gains comparable to…

Do producers respond to quality information disclosure? The HACCP certification in meat industry

Jiehong Zhou, Yu Jin, Yu Wang, Qiao Liang

Food markets are characterized by asymmetric information between suppliers and consumers, which causes inefficiency of market and food safety risks. This paper studies how the…

Digital financial inclusion and vulnerability to poverty: evidence from Chinese rural households

Xiuhua Wang, Yang Fu

Digital finance has the transformative power to realise financial inclusion. However, evidence on the relationship between digital finance and poverty reduction remains limited…

Interactive relationship between non-farm employment and mechanization service expenditure in rural China

Hongyun Zheng, Wanglin Ma, Yanzhi Guo, Xiaoshi Zhou

The purpose of this study is to investigate the interactive relationship between non-farm employment and mechanization service expenditure.

Mobile Internet adoption and technology adoption extensity: evidence from litchi growers in southern China

Yi Cai, Wene Qi, Famin Yi

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of mobile Internet adoption on technology adoption extensity.

Does firm's philanthropy lead to more missions: theory and evidence

Ling-Yun He, Hongzhen Zhang

Inspired by the comparison of charity donations among candidates in rural elections, the authors linked the non-profit motives of charity to corporate pollution emissions. And on…

Has financial access improved agricultural technical efficiency? – evidence from two family farm demonstration zones in China

Zhigang Chen, Ying Zhang, Li Zhou

Finance is crucial to boosting agricultural development in developing countries. This paper aims to investigate the effects of rural formal and informal financial access on…

Digital inclusive finance and rural consumption structure – evidence from Peking University digital inclusive financial index and China household finance survey

Chuanjiang Yu, Nan Jia, Wenqi Li, Rui Wu

This paper examines the impact and mechanism of China's digital inclusive finance on rural consumption upgrade. First, the impact of the development of digital inclusive finance…

Farmland transfer and agricultural economic growth nexus in China: agricultural TFP intermediary effect perspective

Yuan-pei Kuang, Jia-li Yang, Meseret-Chanie Abate

The multidimensional effects of farmland transfer in China have been profoundly unstudied. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights on the effects of the intermediary role…

The impact of rural infrastructural investment on farmers' income growth in China

Lishuang Wang, Fan Zhang, Zehao Wang, Qiu Tan

The purpose of this paper is to propose and verify the influence mechanism of various kinds of infrastructure investment on farmers' income in rural China. It further analyzes the…