Reassessing China's livestock statistics: An analysis of discrepancies and the creation on new data series

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 445-473

  Ma, Hengyun ^a   Huang, Jikun ^b   Rozelle, Scott ^c  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL TRADE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; LIVESTOCK FARMING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 2342470060     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380595     Document Type: Article

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