Xiao-yuan Dong - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

Papers by Xiao-yuan Dong

Feminist Economics, Nov 8, 2017

Research in labor economics, 2013

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 1989

Food Policy, Aug 1, 1995

ABSTRACT China is a major importer of grains, primarily wheat. However, the relative importance o... more ABSTRACT China is a major importer of grains, primarily wheat. However, the relative importance of economic and policy factors underlying the increase in imports into this centrally planned, but reforming, economy is not that well understood. An econometric model is developed to analyze Chinese grain import behaviour over the past three decades and assess the relative importance of respective import determinants. It is concluded that major factors influencing imports have been changes in state grain procurement policy (and associated aspects of China's grain distribution system), income-related improvements in diet (manifest primarily as a shift from inferior cereals and potatoes to wheat and rice rather than as feed-grain based increases in meat consumption), and shortfalls in domestic grain production.

This paper examines the labor market conditions of the paid workforce in the health and elderly c... more This paper examines the labor market conditions of the paid workforce in the health and elderly care industry in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Findings indicate that the wages for elderly care workers, most of whom are women, were low, and that most of the elderly care institutions had difficulty generating sufficient revenue to cover operation costs. The growth in employment in the health and elderly care industry has lagged other sectors, limiting the supply of high-quality services for the PRC’s growing population with health and care needs.

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Oct 1, 2010

China’s Rural Economy after WTO, 2019

Economic Change And Restructuring, Oct 1, 1997

The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China, 2014

Revue d'économie du développement, 2002

Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour De Boeck Supérieur. Distribution électronique Cairn.inf... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour De Boeck Supérieur. Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour De Boeck Supérieur. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit. Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse Article disponible en ligne à l'adresse https://www.cairn.info/revue-d-economie-du-developpement-2002-3-page-73.htm Découvrir le sommaire de ce numéro, suivre la revue par email, s'abonner... Flashez ce QR Code pour accéder à la page de ce numéro sur Cairn.info. Segmentation et discrimination dans le marché du travail émergent de l'industrie chinoise

China Review International, 2008

ABSTRACT If previously the development of China’s agricultural sector was of limited interest to ... more ABSTRACT If previously the development of China’s agricultural sector was of limited interest to scholars working on topics distant from the farm, awareness of the recent penetration of China’s farm exports abroad, agricultural environmental issues, and the increasing role that China plays in global agricultural markets via WTO membership has finally gotten our attention. For those wishing to explore the complex issues facing China’s farm sector and the role that agriculture is now playing in the larger economy and society, this edited volume offers an excellent summary. While the majority of the authors are agricultural economists, the insights provided in the collection are relevant to social scientists of all tribes. This book certainly deserves attention from a broader audience. The Chinese Economy Series has consistently set a high standard of scholarship, and this volume has certainly maintained this tradition. Somewhat artificially, the fifteen chapters in the book are organized into three sections: “Overview of Challenges and Options,” “The Performance and Potentials of China’s Agriculture,” and “Agricultural Risk Management.” More importantly, almost all of the studies included in the volume are data-rich, quantitative in character, and equipped with well-crafted introductions. These introductions, and the very clear first chapter written by the editors, place each study in context and emphasize the larger issues implicit in the research including (but not limited to) food security, the need for rural insurance, implications of land conflicts, farm scale issues, income stagnation (especially in grain-dependent areas), poverty reduction, rural development, and global trade. From this reviewer’s perspective, these are exactly the issues that should hold our attention. Just as issues related to China’s agricultural sector are changing, there has also been a gradual changing of the guard in terms of those who are at the forefront reporting on these issues. The Dong, Song, and Zhang volume includes fourteen generally high-quality studies (of sixteen chapters, including a regional assessment by Robert Fogel and the previously mentioned introduction to the volume by Dong, Song, and Zhang) that taken collectively represent this shift in both leading scholars and scholarship foci. Perhaps too long below the radar screen, research related to the truly complex issues facing China’s farmers and the important roles they play in Chinese society has come of age. There are certainly large numbers of subsistence farmers still facing harsh conditions, but the interests represented by these cases vie with those of more sophisticated producers of an amazing array of fruits, vegetables, fibers, meat, poultry, and (yes) even capital-intensive grain. Applied research on breeding and production of diverse products including fish, shrimp, crabs, bulbs, corms, flowers, fruits, vegetables, and organic food, as well as improvements in postharvest processing and farm-level efficiency, have transformed and diversified the farm sector and rural China. New issues and problems have emerged in tandem with technical improvements, new marketing and processing channels, and the many other changes wrought by China’s post-WTO economy. Given the growing complexity of both the agricultural sector and the rural economy as a whole, an edited volume providing diverse views addressing diverse subjects may well be the best format to tackle the topic. A number of the studies appropriately focus on grain issues—past, present, and future (chapter 10 by Shutan Hao, Nico Heerick, Arie Kuyvenhoven, and Futian Qu on rice and scale; chapter 11 by Wencong Lu on grain supply and demand; chapter 12 by James Wen on future grain security; chapter 16 by Wen Du and Holly H. Wang on wheat futures). These are thoughtful and well-done summaries based on empirical analyses. Their inclusion cautions us to remember always that in China, “Pearls and jade are not as precious as the five grains” ( ). Successful policies related to grain production, supply, and farmland protection are the most fundamental charges of China’s agricultural planners; the rest, at least for many years to come, is window dressing. Still, China’s contemporary farmers do produce more products and sell to more consumers in more places than ever before. The farm sector is more than grain, and the challenges extend far beyond those of the 1980s and early 1990s. Assessing the role of agriculture in comprehensive...

UN Women Discussion Papers, 2016

The UN Women discussion paper series is a new initiative led by the Research and Data section. Th... more The UN Women discussion paper series is a new initiative led by the Research and Data section. The series features research commissioned as background papers for publications by leading researchers from different national and regional contexts. Each paper benefits from an anonymous external peer review process before being published in this series.

Project Report Series, 1992

The subject of this study is the economic characteristics of Canada's export markets for food... more The subject of this study is the economic characteristics of Canada's export markets for foodgrains and feedgrains. The focus is on economic analysis of barley export markets. Over time Canada has become the largest barley exporter, replacing France as the leading source of barley. On the import side, developing countries have become the fastest growing market segment for barley imports, replacing developed countries as the leading market outlet. Canada's export profile data reveal that developing and Eastern European countries became expansionary markets in the 1980s while developed countries have imported a decreasing share of Canada's barley exports. Constant market share analyses of the world barley and course grain markets reveal that those exporters with the highest export concentration in the rapidly expanding markets in richer developing countries registered positive export growth impacts due to this concentration. While corn is still the dominant feedgrain trade...

Modern China, 2000

Since the early 1990s, China's state-owned industrial sector has experienced severe and incre... more Since the early 1990s, China's state-owned industrial sector has experienced severe and increasing stress. When the reform process emerged in 1992 from its post-Tiananmen doldrums, China's policy and rhetoric on state-owned enterprises (SOEs) began shifting steadily. In 1994, the government announced a major program of reforms with the theme of transforming SOEs into "moder corporations." A new round of experiments began in selected enterprises and cities, but a few years later, observers were more agreed than ever that efforts to improve the efficiency of the SOEs had been inadequate. After years of fretting about mounting SOE losses, government policy shifted toward acceptance of a quiet but nevertheless large-scale privatization of smalland medium-sized SOEs. By 1997, the World Bank, which had until then shown a notable patience with China's SOEs, was calling for the selection of no more than one thousand industrial SOEs for continued state majority share ownership and was recommending a more passive state role in all SOEs. China's leadership appeared increasingly prepared to accept such recommendations. In what follows, we suggest a perspective on the role of SOEs in China's moder economic transformation, beginning with the period