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Microfinance through non-governmental organizations and its effects on formal and informal credit: Evidence from rural China
Cheng Xiang, Xiangping Jia, Jikun HuangInternationally, microfinance run by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is often considered an important approach to meeting the credit demand of rural households, particularly…
Consumer willingness to pay for organic fresh milk in Taiwan
Chin-Huang Huang, Chun-Hung LeeThe Fresh Milk Logo certifies that dairy product sold in Taiwan really is fresh milk. However, the logo represents only a moral pledge by the manufacturer. No method exists for…
Hedging effectiveness of weather index-based insurance in China
Niels Pelka, Oliver Musshoff, Robert FingerMaize production in China is exposed to pronounced yield risks, in particular weather risk, which is one of the most important and least controllable sources of risk in…
Mismatch: Land reallocations, recovery land rental and land rental market development in rural China
Yi CheThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate the relative impacts of full-scale land reallocation (FLR) and partial-scale land reallocation (PLR) on household land rental behavior in…
Competitiveness analysis of Egyptian cotton exports with special focus on the Chinese market
Assem Abu Hatab, Eirik RomstadThe expected growth of China's cotton imports along with Egypt's quest for penetrating new cotton importing markets have together attracted the authors to investigate the…
Food safety incidents’ influence on the food industry : How food companies perceive environments and how they react strategically
Kaisheng Zeng, Xiaohui Luo, Yinglin LiuThe purposes of this paper are to find out the correlations between the changes of food companies’ environments and the strategic reactions of food companies after the media…
Product information and Chinese consumers’ willingness-to-pay for fair trade coffee
Shang-Ho Yang, Ping Qing, Wuyang Hu, Yun LiuThe purpose of this paper is to investigate Chinese consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for fair trade coffee given different amount of product information. Although coffee is…
The demand for credit, credit rationing and the role of microfinance: Evidence from poor rural counties of China
Enjiang Cheng, Abdullahi D. AhmedThe purpose of this study is to examine the demand for credit and credit rationing conducted by formal, informal and emerging microfinance lenders in the four poor counties of…
Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007
Zhaopeng Frank Qu, Zhong Zhao– The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets.
Identifying risks inherent in farmer cooperatives in China
Ying Zhang, Zu Hui HuangThe purpose of this paper is to investigate risks faced by farmer cooperatives in China, using farmer cooperatives in Zhejiang province as a case. Specifically, the authors…
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1756-1388ISSN-L:
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hybridEditors:
- Dr Fu Qin
- Dr Jikun Huang
- Dr Kevin Z Chen
- Dr Weiming Tian
- Prof Daniel Sumner
- Prof Xian Xin
- Prof Holly Wang