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Author Spoor, Max

Title Dragons with Clay Feet : Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Viet Nam
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (357 pages)
Contents List of Tables; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 01. Transition, Economic Policy, and Institutional Reforms in China and Vietnam; Part I. REGIONAL AND SECTORAL IMPACT OF ECONOMIC REFORMS; Chapter 02. Regional Inequality in China; Chapter 03. Fiscal Decentralization, Non-farm Development, and Spatial Inequality in Rural China; Chapter 04. The Contribution of Diversification to the Growth and Sustainability of Chinese Agriculture; Chapter 05. Growth and Regional Inequality in Asia's "New Dragons"; Chapter 06. Land Policy in Vietnam's Agrarian Transition
Chapter 07. The Effects of Economic Policy Reforms on the Economic Environment of Farm Households in ChinaPart II. Farm Household Decision-Making under a Changing Economic and Institutional Environment; Chapter 08. Farm Household Responses to China's New Rural Income Support Policy; Chapter 09. Marketing Chains, Transaction Costs, and Resource Management; Chapter 10. Off-farm Employment, Factor Market Development, and Input Use in Farm Production; Chapter 11. Land Fragmentation and Smallholder Rice Farm's Production Costs in Jiangxi Province, China
Chapter 12. Intensification of Rice Production and Negative Health Effects for Farmers in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam's TransitionChapter 13. Public Investment, Agricultural Research, and Agro-chemicals Use in Grain Production in China; Part III. Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management; Chapter 14. Sustainability Issues in East Asian Rice Cultivation; Chapter 15. Agricultural Technology and Nitrogen Pollution in Southeast China; Chapter 16. China's Farmland Use; Appendix; Index; About the Contributors
Summary Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies--China and Vietnam
Notes Print version record
Subject Agriculture and state -- China
Agriculture and state -- Vietnam
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- China
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Vietnam
Sustainable development -- China
Sustainable development -- Vietnam
Agriculture and state.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
Sustainable development.
China.
Vietnam.
Form Electronic book
Author Heerink, Nico
Qu, Futian
ISBN 9780739154397
0739154397