Dragons with clay feet?
Subtitle: transition, sustainable land use, and rural environment in China and Vietnam
By: edited by Max Spoor, Nico Heerink, and Futian Qu.
Contributors: Spoor, Max.; Heerink, Nico, 1955-; Qu, Futian.
Series: Rural economies in transition
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780739113691
Subjects: Agriculture and state -- China.; Agriculture and state -- Vietnam.; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- China.; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Vietnam.; Sustainable development -- China.; Sustainable development -- Vietnam.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Transition, economic policy and institutional reforms in China and Vietnam: impact on sustainable land use / Nico Heerink, Max Spoor and Futian Qu; value: Regional inequality in China: scope, sources, and strategies to reduce it / Shenggen Fan and Connie Chan-Kang; value: Fiscal decentralization, non-farm development, and spatial inequality in rural China / Xiabo Zhang and Shenggen Fan; value: The contribution of diversification to the growth and sustainability of Chinese agriculture / Funing Zhong; value: Growth and regional inequality in Asia's "new dragons": China and Vietnam compared / Max Spoor; value: Land policy in Vietnam's agrarian transition: a case study of Namđinh Province / Nguyen Do Anh Tuan; value: 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; value: Farm household responses to China's new rural income support policy: a village-level analysis / Nico Heerink, Marijke Kuiper, and Xiaoping Shi; value: Marketing chains, transaction costs, and resource management: efficiency and trust within tomato supply chains in Nanjing City / Ruerd Ruben, Hualiang Lu, and Erno Kuiper; value: 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.]; value: Land fragmentation and smallholder rice farm's production costs in Jiangxi Province, China / Shuhao Tan, Gideon Kruseman, and Nico Heerink; value: Intensification of rice production and negative health effects for farmers in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam's transition / Nguyen Huu Dung and Max Spoor; value: Public investment, agricultural research, and agro-chemicals use in grain production in China / Jing Zhu and Yousheng Li; value: Sustainability issues in East Asian rice cultivation / Herman van Keulen; value: Agricultural technology and nitrogen pollution in Southeast China / Marrit van den Berg, Guanghuo Wang, and Reimund Roetter; value: China's farmland use: a scenario analysis of changes and trends / Changhe Lu, Xiubin Li, and Minghong Tan.