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Will Market Prices Enhance Chinese Agriculture?: A Test Of Regional Comparative Advantage

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  • Zhong, Funing
  • Carter, Colin A.

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China is the world's largest producer and consumer of food. In the past, China's governmental policy advocated regional self-sufficiency in agricultural production, and it is generally believed that regional self-sufficiency was enforced at high economic cost. However, this changed with the 1979 economic reforms which encouraged some regional specialization. It is expected that there may be further shifts in regional production patterns and interregional trade flows. This article uses data on land productivity to test for regional comparative advantage, and it provides some empirical evidence on provincial comparative advantage in cotton versus grain production in China.

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  • Zhong, Funing & Carter, Colin A., 1991. "Will Market Prices Enhance Chinese Agriculture?: A Test Of Regional Comparative Advantage," Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 16(2), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:wjagec:32600
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.32600
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    1. Weersink, Alfons & Rozelle, Scott, 1997. "Marketing reforms, market development and agricultural production in China," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 17(2-3), pages 95-114, December.
    2. Wu, Shunxiang & Walker, David J. & Devadoss, Stephen, 1998. "Regional Disparity Of Agricultural Productivity In Post-Reform China," A.E. Research Series 305155, University of Idaho, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    3. Carter, Colin A. & Estrin, Andrew J., 2001. "Market Reforms Versus Structural Reforms in Rural China," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 29(3), pages 527-541, September.
    4. Fredoun Z. Ahmadi‐Esfahani & Christopher G. Locke, 1998. "The Industrial Organization Of The Chinese Food Economy: Socialistic Or Capitalistic?," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 16(1), pages 34-46, January.
    5. Stanmore, Roland & Ahmadi-Esfahani, Fredoun Z., 1995. "The Structure Of The Chinese Food Industries: Implications For Model Building," 1995 Conference (39th), February 14-16, 1995, Perth, Australia 171110, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
    6. Xilin Li, 2012. "Technology, factor endowments, and China's agricultural foreign trade: a neoclassical approach," China Agricultural Economic Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 4(1), pages 105-123, January.

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