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Determinants of agricultural protection in China and the rest of the world
Author(s) -
Yan Wenshou,
Huang Kaixing
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
asian‐pacific economic literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.232
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1467-8411
pISSN - 0818-9935
DOI - 10.1111/apel.12236
Subject(s) - arable land , rest (music) , agriculture , china , poverty , agricultural economics , per capita , inequality , panel data , agricultural productivity , food security , economics , government (linguistics) , geography , economic growth , econometrics , medicine , mathematical analysis , population , linguistics , philosophy , demography , mathematics , archaeology , sociology , cardiology
This paper examines why the Chinese government has distorted its agricultural sector more than elsewhere, in both its antiagricultural and proagricultural periods. The updated panel data on agricultural distortions from 1981 to 2010, compiled by Anderson and Nelgen (2013), are adopted. We find that the different effects of arable land per capita, food self‐sufficiency ratios, poverty, and inequality on agricultural distortions in China and the rest of the world explain why China has distorted its agricultural sector more than elsewhere.
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