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Feeding China: The Experience Since 1949

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China's approach to feeding its 22 per cent of the world population has varied considerably during the 36 years of the People's Republic, and so have the results. In the late 1970s its leadership began repudiating much of the country's earlier experience. While food policy since 1978 has moved along new paths, there are nevertheless close links between recent accomplishments and the earlier record. The purpose of this paper is to survey the experience of food policy under the People's Republic in a comprehensive manner and in historical context.

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  • Carl Riskin, 1987. "Feeding China: The Experience Since 1949," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-1987-027, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-1987-027
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    1. Watson, Andrew, 1983. "Agriculture looks for `shoes that fit': The production responsibility system and its implications," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 11(8), pages 705-730, August.
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    1. Lein-Lein Chen & John Devereux, 2017. "The Iron Rice Bowl: Chinese Living Standards 1952–1978," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 59(3), pages 261-310, September.
    2. Yuyan Zhang, 1989. "Economic System Reform in China," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-1989-055, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    3. Peter Svedberg, 1987. "Undernutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Assessment of the Evidence," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-1987-015, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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