China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 8 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Sun Sizhong, Zhangyue Zhou, Zhixiong Du

Analysis of farmers’ willingness to adopt genetically modified insect-resistant rice in China

Ruomei Xu, Yanrui Wu, Jingdong Luan

Genetically modified (GM) crops, particularly GM grain crops, have been controversial since their commercialization in 1996. However, only a few studies have investigated farmers’…

Convergence and mobility of rural household income in China: New evidence from a transitional dynamics approach

Shi Li, Tsun Se Cheong

The purpose of this paper is to study convergence and income mobility of China’s rural households.

International trade and food security: conceptual discussion, WTO and the case of China

Yu Zhu

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept and measurements of food security under the framework of The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, explores…

Alternative approaches to treat respondent uncertainty in contingent willingness to pay estimation: A theoretical and empirical analysis

Jia Wang, Jiaoju Ge

The purpose of this paper is to theoretically using two new models to analyze the effect of respondents’ uncertainty about their stated willingness to pay (WTP) on welfare…

The state’s position in international agricultural commodity trade: A complex network

Hongbo Cai, Yuanyuan Song

The purpose of this paper is to apply an analysis of complex networks to empirically research international agricultural commodity trade and countries’ trading relations. The…

Realizing targeted poverty alleviation in China: People’s voices, implementation challenges and policy implications

Yuheng Li, Baozhong Su, Yansui Liu

The Chinese Government initiates the targeted poverty alleviation strategy to lift 70.17 million population out of poverty in five years time until 2020. The purpose of this paper…

China’s outward FDI efficiency along the Belt and Road: An application of stochastic frontier gravity model

Zhaobin Fan, Ruohan Zhang, Xiaotong Liu, Lin Pan

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the China’s outward FDI efficiency and it determinants in 69 countries along the Belt and Road over the period of 2003-2013.

The impact of foreign direct investment on urban-rural income inequality: Evidence from China

Chunlai Chen

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on urban-rural income inequality in China.

Can on-the-job training stabilize employment among rural migrant workers?

Jinqi Jiang, Guangsheng Zhang, Diming Qi, Mi Zhou

Whether training contributes to stabilizing employment among rural migrant workers in cities remains unclear. Based on this gap in the research, the purpose of this paper is to…

Transportation infrastructure and rural development in China

Zhiyang Wang, Sizhong Sun

The infrastructure investment is one important source of economic growth in China in the past three decades. However it is not clear to what extent such investment affects…

Book review

Fayi Jia