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Migration and land rental as risk response in rural China

January, 2011
China
land economics
Households in developing countries take various actions to smooth income or consumption as a means of managing or responding to risk. This paper examines migration and land rental market participation as responses to risk in rural China. The authors show that over the last 30 years, there have been significant reforms in China, which have increased labour mobility and the functioning of rural land markets. The authors emphasise that while limitations still remain, the reforms have to date increased the efficiency of the allocation of these important factors of production.
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Urban Development and Climate Change in China’s Pearl River Delta

Reports & Research
January, 2011
China
climate change
Cities are both contributors to and victims of global climate change. Delta cities, in particular, have long been recognized as being extremely vulnerable because they are located where the stresses on natural systems coincide with intense human activity.
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Highlights of IFPRI’s recent food policy research for the Asian Development Bank

January, 2012
Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam
rural areas
In the wake of the food crises of the early 1970s and the resulting World Food Conference of 1974, a group of innovators realized that food security depends not only on crop production, but also on the policies that affect food systems from farm to table. In 1975, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) was founded—nine years after the Asian Development Bank (ADB). For the past 38 years, IFPRI has worked to provide solid research and evidence-based policy options to partners in recipient and donor countries and at multilateral agencies.
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Unattended but not undernourished: young children left behind in rural China

Reports & Research
January, 2012
China, Asia
rural areas
The unprecedented, large-scale, rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. Yet the consequences for child development of living without one or more parents due to migration are largely unknown. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on one measure of child development, the nutritional status of young children in rural areas. We use the interaction terms of wage growth in provincial capital cities with initial village migrant networks as instrumental variables to account for migration selection.
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The road to specialization in agricultural production : Evidence from rural China

Reports & Research
January, 2012
China
rural areas
Because many rural poor live in areas far away from markets, we investigate whether better road access could help improve their livelihood and reduce rural poverty. We use three waves of a primary panel survey at the household level conducted in 18 remote natural villages in China to study how road access shapes farmers’ agricultural production patterns and input uses and affects rural poverty. Our results show that access to roads is strongly associated with specialization in agricultural production.
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Informe sobre el Proceso de Integración Regional, 2010 - 2011

Reports & Research
October, 2011
China, United States of America, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean
El presente documento ha sido elaborado encumplimiento de la Actividad I.1.1 del Programa deTrabajo de la Secretaría Permanente para el año2011, denominada "Seguimiento permanente delproceso de integración regional".
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Rural migrant workers in China

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
China
rural development
rural population
urbanization
urban population
sustainable development
land governance
land policies
In today’s China, about 220 million rural migrant workers are on the move – this is more than two thirds of the US population – and their number is set to increase in the course of the country’s urbanisation process. At a rate of 47 percent, still below global average, and against the backdrop of a marked rural-urban divide, urbanisation is not only an effect of rapid economic development, but also forms part of the Chinese government’s economic development strategy.
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People's Republic of China Regulation on the Expropriation of Buildings on State-owned Land and Compensation

Regulation on the Expropriation of Buildings on State-owned Land and Compensation

Legislation & Policies
Regulations
January, 2011
China
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
displacement
expropriation
Article 1

"This Regulation is formulated for purposes of regulating the expropriation of buildings on state-owned land and corresponding compensation, maintaining public interests and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of owners of the buildings to be expropriated."
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Private Investment in Land

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Qatar, Burkina Faso, Mali, Ukraine, China, Australia, Ghana, Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Malaysia, Brazil, India, Sudan, Saudi Arabia
forestry
fisheries
land policies
land governance
land tenure
Land Tenure Working Paper 21. This paper draws on proceedings of a meeting held to discuss the impact of growing private sector investments in land, fisheries and forests. This meeting, aimed at the private sector, took place at FAO headquarters on 28 February and 1 March 2011. The purpose of this paper is to provide a record of the discussion from the private sector perspective. The first section provides the context which led to the workshop concept.
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The filters to exit rural poverty: an analysis of the complementarities of assets in developing countries

Reports & Research
December, 2011
Egypt, Bangladesh, Honduras, Chile, Guatemala, China, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Ghana, Malawi, Pakistan, Colombia, Panama, Nepal, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Albania, Madagascar, Tanzania, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Brazil
land ownership
rural development
This paper explores a 15-country household data base to evaluate the impact of three key assets (land, education and infrastructure) on rural poverty. Using both a descriptive analysis and a quadratic probit model, with the probability of being poor as a function of these three assets, the paper concludes that household access to education and infrastructure are positively associated with higher incomes, while the impact of land holdings varies across countries. Also, this paper shows the importance of the complementarities among assets in their poverty alleviating potential.