Policy support and emerging farmer professional cooperatives in rural China

China Economic Review

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 495-507

  Deng, Hengshan ^a,b   Huang, Jikun ^a   Xu, Zhigang ^a   Rozelle, Scott ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Cooperatives; Farmer; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049290324     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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