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Dragons with clay feet? : transition, sustainable land use, and rural environment in China and Vietnam / edited by Max Spoor, Nico Heerink, and Futian Qu.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Spoor, Max, 1950-
Heerink, Nico, 1955-
Qu, Futian.
Series:
Rural economies in transition.
Rural economies in transition
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Agriculture and state--China.
Agriculture and state.
Agriculture and state--Vietnam.
Agriculture--Economic aspects--China.
Agriculture.
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Vietnam.
Sustainable development--China.
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development--Vietnam.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (326 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies-China and Vietnam.
Contents:
Transition, economic policy and institutional reforms in China and Vietnam: impact on sustainable land use / Nico Heerink, Max Spoor and Futian Qu
Regional inequality in China: scope, sources, and strategies to reduce it / Shenggen Fan and Connie Chan-Kang
Fiscal decentralization, non-farm development, and spatial inequality in rural China / Xiabo Zhang and Shenggen Fan
The contribution of diversification to the growth and sustainability of Chinese agriculture / Funing Zhong
Growth and regional inequality in Asia's "new dragons": China and Vietnam compared / Max Spoor
Land policy in Vietnam's agrarian transition: a case study of Namđinh Province / Nguyen Do Anh Tuan
The effects of economic policy reforms on the economic environment of farm households in China: an empirical analysis for Jiangxi Province / Zhigang Chen, Nico Heerink, and Peixin Zhu
Farm household responses to China's new rural income support policy: a village-level analysis / Nico Heerink, Marijke Kuiper, and Xiaoping Shi
Marketing chains, transaction costs, and resource management: efficiency and trust within tomato supply chains in Nanjing City / Ruerd Ruben, Hualiang Lu, and Erno Kuiper
Off-farm employment, factor market development, and input use in farm production a case study of a remote village in Jiangxi Province, China / Xiaoping Shi ... [et al.]
Land fragmentation and smallholder rice farm's production costs in Jiangxi Province, China / Shuhao Tan, Gideon Kruseman, and Nico Heerink
Intensification of rice production and negative health effects for farmers in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam's transition / Nguyen Huu Dung and Max Spoor
Public investment, agricultural research, and agro-chemicals use in grain production in China / Jing Zhu and Yousheng Li
Sustainability issues in East Asian rice cultivation / Herman van Keulen
Agricultural technology and nitrogen pollution in Southeast China / Marrit van den Berg, Guanghuo Wang, and Reimund Roetter
China's farmland use: a scenario analysis of changes and trends / Changhe Lu, Xiubin Li, and Minghong Tan.
Notes:
1st paperback edition 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
979-82-16-20580-7
1-283-28958-X
9786613289582
0-7391-5439-7
OCLC:
743694171

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