The Dragon and the Elephant: Agricultural and Rural Reforms in China and India
The Dragon and the Elephant: Agricultural and Rural Reforms in China and India
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龙与象:中国和印度的农业农村改革
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10.1093/erae/jbp033
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
A. Rae
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作者:
A. Rae
In 1978 China’s (the dragon’s) per capita income1 was below that of India’s (the elephant’s) and the latter’s was below that of Sub-Saharan Africa. After a quarter century of economic reforms, both China and India have surpassed Sub-Saharan Africa and China’s per capita income is almost double that of India. China and India have achieved unprecedented levels of prosperity and now top the list of the world’s fastest growing economies. While these countries are major players in the global economy, they also account for the bulk of the world’s poverty. China’s economic transformation began with changes to institutional structures by encouraging land use change through the household responsibility system and freeing agricultural markets. India’s approach to reform was quite different. It emphasised structural adjustment in industrial and trade policies, and the removal of bureaucratic barriers to change. As a result, agriculture grew rapidly in both countries and rural poverty decreased. However, the growth of agricultural income has been higher in China and the rate of poverty decline much slower in India. But inequality has also increased significantly in both countries, especially in China.The main objective of this book is to discover what each country can learn from the other regarding their reform experiences, the sequencing of those reforms, and their impacts on agricultural growth and rural poverty. This knowledge can then contribute to the continuing reform process in India and China, and these lessons may also be applicable to other developing countries in transition. The book is the outcome of two international conferences organised by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with leading Chinese and Indian institutions, policy-makers, and scholars. Comparative analyses across ten themes were conducted: land reforms, human and social development, public investment, agricultural R&D, irrigation and water, domestic agricultural marketing, agricultural trade liberalisation, agricultural and rural diversification, the rural non-farm sector, and anti-poverty programmes. Conclusions of this study emphasise
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发表时间:
2016
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作者:
Kenta Tanaka;Shunsuke Managi
通讯作者:
Shunsuke Managi