Agricultural Reform in China
Agricultural Reform in China
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USDThe successful agricultural reform carried out in China in the 1970s started encountering mounting difficulties from the mid-1980s, as growth rates dropped and prices increased sharply. This study analyzes the different reform measures introduced in China in the past twenty years, and provides a full analysis of the existing agricultural system. Through careful examination of the political economy and the different policy options, the author argues that China should push forward with its market-oriented reform measures and introduce the rigors of international competition into the agricultural sector.
- Provides a comprehensive account of the agricultural reforms in China over the past twenty years
- Offers a careful analysis of the current policy choices faced by the Chinese government
- Uses both quantitative and political economy approaches
Reviews & endorsements
"This is a short, but comprehensive, analysis of the changes in the Chinese agricultural institutions between the late-1970s and the mid-1990s." Fuming Wang, Agricultural History Journal
Product details
January 1998Hardback
9780521620550
240 pages
229 × 152 × 17 mm
0.52kg
19 b/w illus. 34 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Getting markets to work in the countryside
- 2. Institutional distortions in pre-reform agriculture
- 3. Getting farmers back to work
- 4. Getting prices right
- 5. Adjustments in rural markets bring structural change
- 6. An agricultural economy without freedom of trade
- 7. China's agricultural policy choices
- 8. Chinese farmers can adapt
- 9. Getting reform right in agriculture
- Appendix: The China model
- References
- Index.
