Agricultural Reform in China: Getting Institutions Right

by Yiping Huang

Overview

The 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521620550
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/13/1998
Series:	Trade and Development
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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

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