Full Description
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. The contributions to this volume focus on the regional and sectoral impact of transformational policies, farm household decision making under a changing economic and institutional environment, and potential trade-offs between agricultural growth and sustainable land management in the two countries. The analysis of household responses to economic policies and changing institution, and their implications for agricultural production and sustainable resource use in East-Asian transition economies, is a relatively new research field. This collection by a group of Chinese, Vietnamese, and international researchers reflect the rapid progress that is being made in this important research field.
Contents
Chapter 1 Transition, Economic Policy and Institutional Reforms in China and Vietnam: The Impact of Sustainable Land Use
Part 2 Regional and Sectoral Impact of Economic Reform
Chapter 3 Regional Inequality in China: Scope, Sources, and Strategies to Reduce It
Chapter 4 Fiscal Decentralization, Nonfarm Development, and Spatial Inequality in Rural China
Chapter 5 The Contribution of Diversification to the Growth and Sustainability of Chinese Agriculture
Chapter 6 Growth and Regional Inequality in Asia's "New Dragons": China and Vietnam Compared
Chapter 7 Land Policy in Vietnam's Agrarian Transition — A Case Study of Namdinh Province
Chapter 8 The Effects of Economic Policy Reforms on the Economic Environment of Farm Households in China: An Empirical Analysis for Jiangxi Province
Part 9 Farm Household Decision Making under a Changing Economic and Institutional Environment
Chapter 10 Farm Household Responses to China's New Rural Income Support Policy: A Village-Level Analysis
Chapter 11 Marketing Chains, Transaction Costs, and Resource Management: Efficiency and Trust within Tomato Supply Chains in Nanjing City
Chapter 12 Off-Farm Employment, Factor Market Development and Input Use in Farm Production — A Case Study of a Remote Village in Jiangxi Province, China
Chapter 13 Land Fragmentation and Smallholder Rice Farm's Production Costs in Jiangxi Province, China
Chapter 14 Intensification of Rice Production and Negative Health Effects for Farmers in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam's Transition
Chapter 15 Public Investment, Agricultural Research and Agrochemicals Use in Grain Production in China
Part 16 Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management
Chapter 17 Sustainability Issues in East Asian Rice Cultivation
Chapter 18 Agricultural Technology and Nitrogen Pollution in Southeast China
Chapter 19 China's Farmland Use: A Scenario Analysis of Changes and Trends
