Agricultural trade reform and rural prosperity
Subtitle: lessons from china
By: Jikun Huang, Yu Liu, Will Martin, Scott Rozelle.
Contributors: Huang, Jikun.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13958; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13958.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the WTO.  The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite strongly negative for most commodities, and particularly for exported goods, at the beginning of the reforms.  Since then, the taxation of agriculture has declined sharply, with the abolition of production quotas and procurement pricing, and reductions in trade distortions for both imported and exported goods.  Rural well-being has improved partly because of these reforms, and also because of strengthening of markets, public investment in infrastructure, research and development, health and education, and reductions in barriers to mobility of labor out of agriculture.  Many challenges remain in improving rural incomes and reducing rural poverty"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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