Search Results - "Government of China"

The Pest Severity, Insecticide Application, and Land Use Data for 51 Counties in China, 1991-2015 by International Food Policy Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Government of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Improving returns to public investments in China’s agricultural sector by CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

“…Recommendations to improve the effectiveness of China’s public expenditures in the agricultural sector were prepared by IFPRI’s China Strategy Support Program team using the Statistics on Public Expenditures for Economic Development database, and shared with the Government of China and the Asian Development Bank. In line with these recommendations, changes have taken place in the country’s public expenditure policies, some of which are reflected in China’s new Rural Revitalization Strategy.…”
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Can water allocation in the Yellow River basin be improved? Insights from a multi-agent system model by Cai, Ximing, Yang, Yi-Chen E., Jianshi, Zhao, Ringler, Claudia

“…In 1999, the Government of China enforced a cross-provincial, quota-based Water Allocation Agreement that was developed in 1987 and titled Unified Water Flow Regulation (UWFR) to ensure that flow to the Yellow River mouth would not be cut off. …”
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Water allocation management in the Yellow river basin: Potential for water trading? by Cai, Ximing, Yang, Yi-Chen E., Jianshi, Zhao, Ringler, Claudia

“…This policy was in line with the past decade’s renewed focus on sustainable water use and efforts by the Government of China to keep the Yellow River “healthy.” …”
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Innovative grassland management systems for environmental and livelihood benefits by Kemp, David R., Guodong, Han, Xiangyang, Hou, Michalk, David L., Fujiang, Hou, Jianping, Wu, Yingjun, Zhang

“…This bottom-up approach was supported by informing and working with the six layers of government in China to build appropriate policies. Further policy implications are considered. …”
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Race to the top and race to the bottom: Tax competition in rural China by Yao, Yi, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…This paper is the first, to our knowledge, to empirically assess the patterns and extent of strategic tax competition between geographically neighboring governments in China. Using a panel data set containing data at the county level, we apply Anselin's (1995) local indicator of spatial association (LISA) approach to statistically test the existence of local capital tax competition and examine its determining factors. …”
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