Agricultural Reform in China

Getting Institutions Right

Yiping Huang author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:13th Jan '98

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Survey of the Chinese agricultural system and reforms introduced over the last twenty years.

This study analyses the different reform measures introduced in China in the last twenty years, and provides a full analysis of the existing agricultural system. It examines the policy options available for China, and argues that it should push forward its market-oriented reform measures.Chinese agriculture has experienced some radical changes over the past twenty years. Following the successful introduction of the household production system in the early 1980s, difficulties were encountered in establishing a unified domestic agricultural market in the later 1980s and 1990s. Through a comprehensive analysis of the changes in the Chinese agricultural institutions between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s, this study attempts to provide some answers to the main questions presently facing the agricultural sector. It focuses on the key elements of the pre-reform agricultural institutions, reviews the ways these institutions were refashioned and assesses the resulting changes in agricultural development. The implications of different policy choices are carefully considered with the assistance of a computable general equilibrium model. The author argues that China should push forward with its market-oriented reform measures and introduce the rigours of international competition into the agricultural sector.

'This is an important volume for two reasons: first, it provides an accessible overview of two decades of agricultural reforms in China; second, it argues that the way forward for Chinese agriculture is through full internationalisation for the entire sector.' Peter Timmer, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature

ISBN: 9780521620550

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm

Weight: 520g

240 pages