New Directions In China S Agricultural Lending

Author : Fred Gale,Robert Callender
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1422316203

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New Directions in China's Agricultural Lending by Fred Gale,Robert Callender Pdf

China has substantially boosted lending to farmers & agribus. in recent years. The balance of loans to farmers doubled between 2001 & 2005. Loans for agribus. & rural infrastructure rose as well. Rural credit coop. & banks that lend to ag. are being reformed & commercialized but ag. lending is still largely policy-driven. The boost in farm lending is one of several policy initiatives to aid farmers. Chinese ag. remains dominated by extremely small farms using little physical capital, but rising investment is helping the sector diversify & is improving the quality & safety of ag. produce. The campaign to inject capital into rural China is enabled by an abundant supply of domestic savings & large inflows of foreign investment. Illustrations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCSC:32106018778206

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Amber Waves by Anonim Pdf

Author : Björn Alpermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135149086

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China's Cotton Industry by Björn Alpermann Pdf

This book examines the political economy of the cotton processing industry, analyzes the process of cotton policy making and looks at how local governments and the former monopolist cope with the changes brought about by marketization.

Author : Björn Alpermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136710292

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Politics and Markets in Rural China by Björn Alpermann Pdf

Thirty years have passed since the beginning of the reform era in China which saw important changes in agriculture and rural organizations, but it is clear that certain entrenched legacies from pre-reform China still linger on even after WTO accession, most importantly the key role played by state actors and politics in the development of markets in rural China. Although increasingly diversified markets have emerged for major agricultural inputs and products, their development cannot be understood without taking this role into account. Against this backdrop, the contributors to this book offer a fresh account of rural politics and markets, consciously linking these two realms and highlighting their interconnectedness. The book is organized in three parts addressing respectively markets for agricultural inputs and outputs as well as current policies in rural development. The perspectives adopted link macro- and micro-level analysis in each chapter and thus contribute substantially to our understanding of existing markets. As an original account of rural politics and markets in China this book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese politics, economics, development studies and political economy.

Author : L. Augustin-Jean,B. Alpermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137277954

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The Political Economy of Agro-Food Markets in China by L. Augustin-Jean,B. Alpermann Pdf

China's agricultural production and food consumption have increased tremendously, leading to a complete evolution of agro-food markets. The book is divided into two parts; the first part reviews the theoretical framework for the 'social construction of the markets,' while the second part presents the implication for the agro-food markets in China.

Author : Richard Sanders,Chen Yang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134078516

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China's Post-Reform Economy - Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth by Richard Sanders,Chen Yang Pdf

This book discusses the very latest issues relating to China's remarkable economic growth. It provides comprehensive coverage of them, including economic, political-economic, environmental and philosophical questions.

Author : Sachiko Miyata, Nicholas Minot, and Dinghuan Hu
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Impact of Contract Farming on Income: Linking small farmers, Packers, and Supermarkets in China by Sachiko Miyata, Nicholas Minot, and Dinghuan Hu Pdf

This study compares contract and non-contract growers of apples and green onions in Shandong Province, China in order to explore the constraints on participation and the impact of contract farming on income. We find little evidence that firms prefer to work with larger farms, though all farms in the area are quite small. Using a Heckman selection-correction model, we find that contract farming raises income even after controlling for observable and unobservable household characteristics. These results suggest that contract farming can help raise small-farm income, though questions remain regarding the number of farmers that can be brought into such schemes.

Author : Barry Naughton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262640640

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The Chinese Economy by Barry Naughton Pdf

The most comprehensive English-language overview of the modern Chinese economy, covering China's economic development since 1949 and post-1978 reforms--from industrial change and agricultural organization to science and technology.

Author : Peter B. R. Hazell,Atiqur Rahman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191003561

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New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture by Peter B. R. Hazell,Atiqur Rahman Pdf

The majority of the poor and hungry people in the world live on small farms and struggle to subsist on too little land with low input - low yield technologies. At the same time, many other smallholders are successfully intensifying and succeeding as farm businesses, often in combination with diversification into off-farm sources of income. This book examines the growing divergence between subsistence and business oriented small farms, and discusses how this divergence has been impacted by population growth, trends in farm size distribution, urbanization, off-farm income diversification, and the globalization of agricultural value chains. It finds that policy makers need to differentiate more sharply between different types of small farms than they did in the past, both in terms of their potential contributions towards achieving national economic growth, poverty alleviation, and food security goals, and the types of assistance they need. The book distinguishes between smallholders that are business oriented, subsistence oriented, and at various stages of transition to the non-farm economy, and discusses strategies appropriate for assisting each type. The book draws on a wealth of recent experience at IFAD and elsewhere to help identify best practice approaches.

Author : Chris Alden,Daniel Large
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351668286

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New Directions in Africa–China Studies by Chris Alden,Daniel Large Pdf

Interest in China and Africa is growing exponentially. Taking a step back from the ‘events-driven’ reactions characterizing much coverage, this timely book reflects more deeply on questions concerning how this subject has been, is being and can be studied. It offers a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary and authoritative contribution to Africa–China studies. Its diverse chapters explore key current research themes and debates, such as agency, media, race, ivory, development or security, using a variety of case studies from Benin, Kenya and Tanzania, to Angola, Mozambique and Mauritius. Looking back, it explores the evolution of studies about Africa and China. Looking forward, it explores alternative, future possibilities for a complex and constantly evolving subject. Showcasing a range of perspectives by leading and emerging scholars, New Directions in Africa–China Studies is an essential resource for students and scholars of Africa and China relations.

Author : Gan Christopher,Nartea Gilbert
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813147966

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Microfinance In Asia by Gan Christopher,Nartea Gilbert Pdf

Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral. These low-income households face limited opportunity to acquire new technology and working capital for agricultural production and thus tend to fall behind. As a result, providing access to finance to low-income rural households has been considered an important component of any rural development strategy. Microfinance programmes, in particular, have been gradually embedded in national strategies of many developing countries as they are poverty-focused. They aim to facilitate the access to financial services such as credit for the poor who are usually disadvantaged in terms of access to conventional financial services from formal financial institutions. The objective of this book is to provide an overview of microfinance programmes in Asia focusing in particular on the determinants of the accessibility of rural households to microcredit. The book studies seven Asian countries such as China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Bangladesh with two specific case studies.

Author : Ira W. Lieberman,Paul DiLeo,Todd A. Watkins
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815737643

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The Future of Microfinance by Ira W. Lieberman,Paul DiLeo,Todd A. Watkins Pdf

A major source of financing for the poor and no longer a niche industry Over the past four decades, microfinance—the provision of loans, savings, and insurance to small businesses and entrepreneurs shut out of traditional capital markets—has grown from a niche service in Bangladesh and a few other countries to a significant global source of financing. Some 200 million people globally now receive support from microfinance institutions, with most of the recipients in the developing world. In the beginning, much of the microfinance industry was managed by non-governmental organizations, but today the majority of these institutions are commercial and regulated by governments, and they provide safe places for the poor to save, as well as offering much-needed capital and other financial services. Now out of infancy, the microfinance industry faces major challenges, including its ability to deal with mobile banking and other technology and concerns that some markets are now over-saturated with microfinance. How the industry deals with these and other challenges will determine whether it will continue to grow or will be subsumed within the larger global financial sector. This book is based on the results of a workshop at Lehigh University among thirty-four leaders in the industry. The editors, working with contributions from more than a dozen leading authorities in the field, tell the important story of how microfinance developed, how it has met the needs of hundreds of millions of people, and they address key questions about how it can continue to meet those needs in the future.

Author : Robert S. Ross
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804753636

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New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy by Robert S. Ross Pdf

Ten outstanding specialists in Chinese foreign policy draw on new theories, methods, and sources to examine China's use of force, its response to globalization, and the role of domestic politics in its foreign policy.

Author : Ryan Isakson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317424819

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New Directions in Agrarian Political Economy by Ryan Isakson Pdf

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this question by focusing upon the defining features of agrarian transformation in the 21st century: the financialization of food and agriculture, the blurring of rural and urban livelihoods through migration and other economic activities, forest transition, climate change, rural indebtedness, the co-evolution of social policy and moral economies, and changing property relations. Combined, the eleven contributions to this collection provide a broad overview of agrarian studies over the past four decades and identify the contemporary frontiers of agrarian political economy. In this path-breaking collection, the authors show how new iterations of long evident processes continue to catch peasants and smallholders in the crosshairs of crises and how many manage to face these challenges, developing new sources and sites of livelihood production. This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Author : Ryan Isakson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317424826

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New Directions in Agrarian Political Economy by Ryan Isakson Pdf

How relevant are the classic theories of agrarian change in the contemporary context? This volume explores this question by focusing upon the defining features of agrarian transformation in the 21st century: the financialization of food and agriculture, the blurring of rural and urban livelihoods through migration and other economic activities, forest transition, climate change, rural indebtedness, the co-evolution of social policy and moral economies, and changing property relations. Combined, the eleven contributions to this collection provide a broad overview of agrarian studies over the past four decades and identify the contemporary frontiers of agrarian political economy. In this path-breaking collection, the authors show how new iterations of long evident processes continue to catch peasants and smallholders in the crosshairs of crises and how many manage to face these challenges, developing new sources and sites of livelihood production. This volume was published as part one of the special double issue celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Peasant Studies.