Capital deepening, land use policy, and self-sufficiency in China's grain sector

China Economic Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 95-107

  Ito, Junichi ^a   Ni, Jing ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Cooperative General Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capital deepening; China; Grain self sufficiency; Production function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871605724     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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