Shenggen Fan, Connie Chan-kang, Anit Mukherjee
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ________________________________________________iii (2009)
Kiran Gajwani, Peter Hazell, Shenggen Fan, Justin Lin, Xiaopeng Luo
anonymous reviewer, and participants from a seminar held at IFPRI and a session on “Land Rights and Social Security in China ” in the annual meetings of American
I. Introduction Chapter One (2009)
Ali Abdel, Gadir Ali, Shenggen Fan
The percentage of the world’s poor living below $1 per day fell by nearly a
Chapter 3 China: An Unfinished Reform Agenda (2009)
Shenggen Fan, Keming Qian, Xiaobo Zhang
Agricultural production in China has grown rapidly—relative to other countries— over the past four decades. Much of this growth can be attributed to investments in agricultural research by...
Gestion Del Gasto, Publico Para, El Desarrollo, Shenggen Fan, Shenggen Fan
The results of poverty reduction in the developing world are mixed for the past two decades. East Asian countries have generally been very successful in eradicating large-scale poverty.
Chapter Five Public Spending, Growth, and Poverty Reduction in Egypt: A Multi-level Analysis (2008)
Shenggen Fan, Perrihan Al-riffai, Moataz El-said, Bingxin Yu, Ahmed Kamaly
Egypt is a lower middle-income country with a per capita GDP of US$
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) (2008)
Li Xing, Shenggen Fan, Xiaopeng Luo, Xiaobo Zhang
Abstract: Based on a recent census type of household survey in three administrative villages and a sampling survey of 286 natural villages in the poorest Guizhou province in 2004, this paper offers a...
Shenggen Fan, Connie Chan-kang, Fan Shenggen
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Linkages between Government Spending, Growth, and Poverty in Rural India (2008)
S. Fan, Shenggen Fan, Peter Hazell, Sukhadeo Thorat, Baba Di Oum, Sene Gal, ...
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Xinshen Diao, Shenggen Fan, Derek Headey, Michael Johnson, Alejandro Nin Pratt, Bingxin Yu
agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group...
agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group...
Investing in African agriculture to halve poverty by 2015 (2008)
Shenggen Fan, Michael Johnson, Anuja Saurkar, Tsitsi Makombe, Shenggen Fan, Michael Johnson, ...
agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the Consultative Group...
Shenggen Fan, Cheng Fang, Xiaobo Zhang
EPTD Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
EPTD Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
HOW PRODUCTIVE IS INFRASTRUCTURE? NEW APPROACH AND EVIDENCE FROM RURAL INDIA (2007)
Xiaobo Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang, Shenggen Fan, Shenggen Fan
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EPTD Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007)
Xiaobo Zhang, Shenggen Fan, Linxiu Zhang, Jikun Huang
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Shenggen Fan, Xiaobo Zhang, Neetha Rao
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Shenggen Fan, Peter Hazell, Sukhadeo Thorat
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EPTD DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 94 AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND URBAN POVERTY IN INDIA (2007)
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Development Strategy and Governance Division (2007)
Xinshen Diao, Shenggen Fan, Sam Kanyarukiga, Bingxin Yu, Xinshen Diao, Shenggen Fan, ...
of 15 agricultural research centers that receive principal funding from governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations, most of which are members of the
Road development, economic growth, and poverty reduction (2005)
Shenggen Fan, Connie Chan-kang, Shenggen Fan, Connie Chan-kang
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Shenggen Fan, Somchai Jitsuchon, Nuntaporn Methakunnavut
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Centre for Development and Poverty Reduction (2004)
Andrew Dorward, Shenggen Fan, Jonathan Kydd, Hans Lofgren, Jamie Morrison, Colin Poulton, ...
DSGD Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Blunt to Sharpened Razor: Incremental Reform and (2004)
Xiaobo Zhang, Kong-yam Tan, Xiaobo Zhang, Kong-yam Tan, Gregory C. Chow, ...
DSGD Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Shenggen Fan, Connie Chan-kang
The debate on the relationship between farm size and productivity has gone through a complete circle. In the 1960s, it was perceived that small farms were efficient because they can fully use their...
AND RURAL POVERTY: THE CASE OF RICE RESEARCH IN (2003)
Shenggen Fan, Connie Chan-kang, Keming Qian, K. Krishnaiah
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The Role Of, Shenggen Fan, Linxiu Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang
this report are all measured in 1990 constant prices
Xinshen Diao, Shenggen Fan, Xiaobo Zhang
TMD Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that most...
The Path of Technology Diffusion: Which Neighbors to Learn From? (2002)
Zhang, Xiaobo, Fan, Shenggen, Cai, Ximing
This study uses a panel data set of 25 years over 280 districts in rural India and applies a geographic information systems (GIS) program to investigate the regional neighborhood effect on the rate...
Shenggen Fan, Linxiu Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang
Public investment, together with institutional and policy reforms, has contributed substantially to rapid economic growth in rural China since the late 1970s. This rapid growth has also led to...
Developing countries allocate scarce government funds to investments in rural areas to achieve the twin goals of agricultural growth and poverty alleviation. Choices have to be made between different...
EPTD Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
EPTD DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 53 PAST AND FUTURE SOURCES OF GROWTH FOR CHINA (1999)
Shenggen Fan, Xiaobo Zhang, Sherman Robinson
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Why Do Projections On China's Future (1997)
Food Supply And, Shenggen Fan, Mercedita Agcaoili-sombilla
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic assumptions, demand and supply parameters, and structures of the models used in projecting China's future food supply, demand, and trade. Projections from...
EPTD Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
EPTD Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results, and are circulated prior to a full peer review in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. It is expected that...
Fan, Shenggen, Wailes, Eric J., Young, Kenneth B.
This paper uses a frontier production function approach to quantify the separate effects of policy reforms, technological change, and increased input use on production growth in Egyptian rice...
Shenggen Fan, Philip G. Pardey
Recent attempts to quantify the sources of growth in Chinese agriculture have attributed an exceptionally large share of this growth to the contemporary institutional and market reforms within China....
Regional productivity growth in China's agriculture / (1989)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1989.
Gulati, Ashok, Fan, Shenggen, Dalafi, Sara
"China's and India's rapid rise in the global arena has not only captured the attention of the world but has also set into motion a rethinking of the very paradigm of economic development....Today,...
Rural and urban dynamics and poverty: Evidence from China and India
Fan, Shenggen, Chan-Kang, Connie, Mukherjee, Anit
"Like many developing countries, China and India followed development strategies biased in favor of the urban sector over the last several decades. These development schemes have led to overall...
Public investment and poverty reduction in Tanzania
Fan, Shenggen, Nyange, David, Rao, Neetha
"Using Tanzania as a test case, this study demonstrates how household survey data can be used to assess the impacts of public investments on growth and poverty. A two step procedure is used. First,...
Gulati, Ashok, Fan, Shenggen, Dalafi, Sara
"China's and India's rapid rise in the global arena has not only captured the attention of the world but has also set into motion a rethinking of the very paradigm of economic development....Today,...
Road development, economic growth, and poverty reduction in China
Fan, Shenggen, Chan-Kang, Connie
"Since 1978, China has adopted a series of economic reforms leading to rapid economic growth and poverty reduction. National Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at about 9 percent per annum from 1978...
Summary of a productive partnership: the benefits from U.S. participation in the CGIAR
Pardey, Philip G., Alston, Julian M., Christian, Jason E., Fan, Shenggen
For more than two decades, the United States has been an important player in a global partnership for agricultural research through its investments in the work of the Consultative Group on...
Pardey, Philip G., Alston, Julian M., Christian, Jason E., Fan, Shenggen.
"This report spells out the benefits to the United States from its partnership with the CGIAR. Using wheat and rice to illustrate the gains from international research on important food crops, the...
Linkages between government spending, growth, and poverty in rural India:
Fan, Shenggen, Hazell, P. B. R., Thorat, Sukhadeo
"This research report on India addresses an important policy issue faced by policy-makers in many developing countries: how to allocate public funds more efficiently in order to achieve both growth...
Fan, Shenggen, Pardey, Philip G.
Recent attempts to quantify the sources of growth in Chinese agriculture have attributed an exceptionally large share of this growth to the contemporary institutional and market reforms within China....
Why do projections on China's future food supply and demand differ?:
Fan, Shenggen, Agcaoili-Sombilla, Mercedita C.
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic assumptions, demand and supply parameters, and structures of the models used in projecting China's future food supply, demand, and trade. Projections from these...
Should India invest more in less-favored areas?:
Fan, Shenggen, Hazell, P. B. R.
Developing countries have to allocate limited government resources for rural areas among different investment activities and regions to achieve the twin goals of productivity growth and poverty...
Output in Chinese agriculture has grown rapidly for the last several decades, as reported by the Statistical System in China. However, reported total output is aggregated using constant prices, which...
Government spending, growth and poverty: an analysis of interlinkages in rural India
Fan, Shenggen, Hazell, P. B. R., Thorat, Sukhadeo
Poverty in rural India has declined substantially in recent decades. This steady decline in poverty was strongly associated with agricultural growth, particularly the green revolution, which in turn...
This paper develops a frontier shadow cost function approach to estimate empirically the effects of technological change, technical and allocative efficiency improvement in Chinese agriculture during...
Are returns to public investment lower in less-favored rural areas?: an empirical analysis of India
Fan, Shenggen, Hazell, P. B. R.
Developing countries allocate scarce government funds to investments in rural areas to achieve the twin goals of agricultural growth and poverty alleviation. Choices have to be made between different...
A Generalized Maximum Entropy (GME) approach is adapted to empirically estimate crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture. Despite a modest behavior assumption about equal marginal...
Past and future sources of growth for China:
Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Xiaobo, Robinson, Sherman
This study develops an analytical framework to account for sources of rapid economic growth in China. The traditional Solow approach includes only two sources, i.e. increased use of inputs and...
Road development, economic growth, and poverty reduction in China:
Fan, Shenggen, Chan-Kang, Connie
"Since 1985, the Chinese government has given high priority to building roads, particularly high-quality roads that connect industrial centers. This report evaluates the contribution roads have made...
Village inequality in Western China: implications for development strategy in lagging regions
Xing, Li, Fan, Shenggen, Luo, Xiaopeng, Zhang, Xiaobo
"Increased regional inequality has been a major concern in many emerging economies like China, India, Vietnam and Thailand. However, even a large inequality is observed within the lagging regions....
A multi-level analysis of public spending, growth and poverty reduction in Egypt:
Fan, Shenggen, Al-Riffai, Perrihan, El-Said, Moataz, Yu, Bingxin, Kamaly, Ahmed
"Egypt is a lower middle-income country with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) in 2003 of US$3,949 measured in international dollars, or purchasing power parity (World Bank 2005a). In the...
Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Rwanda:
Diao, Xinshen, Fan, Shenggen, Yu, Bingxin, Kanyarukiga, Sam
"An economywide, multimarket (EMM) model was developed for Rwanda to analyze the linkages and trade-offs between growth and poverty reduction goals at both macro- and micro-economic levels. The model...
Resource abundance and regional development in China:
Zhang, Xiaobo, Xing, Li, Fan, Shenggen, Luo, Xiaopeng
"Over the past several decades, China has made tremendous progress in market integration and infrastructure development. Demand for natural resources has increased from the booming coastal economies,...
Investment, subsidies, and pro-poor growth in rural India:
Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Thorat, Sukhadeo
"This paper reviews the trends in government subsidies and investments in and for Indian agriculture; develops a conceptual framework and model to assess the impact of various subsidies and...
Investing in African agriculture to halve poverty by 2015:
Fan, Shenggen, Johnson, Michael, Saurkar, Anuja, Makombe, Tsitsi
"This paper proposes a simple methodology to estimate the agricultural spending that will be required to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 (MDG1) in 30 sub-Saharan...
How Productive Is Infrastructure? A New Approach and Evidence from Rural India
There have been competing arguments about the effect of public infrastructure on productivity. Level-based and debate-based regressions often lead to different estimates. To help reconcile this...
Institutions and Policies for Pro-poor Agricultural Growth
Andrew Dorward, Shenggen Fan, Jonathan Kydd, Hans Lofgren, Jamie Morrison, Colin Poulton, ...
Global experience with pro-poor growth and empirical work spanning India, Malawi and Zimbabwe demonstrates the importance of agricultural growth for poverty reduction in poor rural areas, while also...
Structural Change and Economic Growth in China
Shenggen Fan, Xiaobo Zhang, Sherman Robinson
This study develops a new analytical framework to account for sources of rapid economic growth in China. The traditional Solow approach is expanded to include another source of economic...
Is small beautiful? Farm size, productivity, and poverty in Asian agriculture
Shenggen Fan, Connie Chan-Kang
Small farms characterize agriculture in Asia. With the fragmentation of land holdings, the average size of farms fell in the region, while the number of small-size holdings increased significantly....
Shenggen Fan, Connie Chan-Kang, Keming Qian, K. Krishnaiah
We measure the total benefits from rice varietal improvement research in China and India, using variety adoption and performance data over the last two decades. Genetic or pedigree information is...
A generalized maximum entropy approach is adapted to empirically estimate crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture. Despite a modest behavioral assumption about equal marginal...
Government Spending, Growth and Poverty in Rural India.
Fan, Shenggen, Hazell, Peter, Thorat, Sukhadeo
Using state-level data for 1970-93, a simultaneous equation model was developed to estimate the direct and indirect effects of different types of government expenditure on rural poverty and...
Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments
Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Linxiu, Zhang, Xiaobo
In the past two decades, China has achieved world renown for reducing rural poverty. However, it is becoming harder to reduce poverty and inequality further in China, even though its economy...
Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Rwanda:
Diao, Xinshen, Fan, Shenggen, Yu, Bingxin, Kanyarukiga, Sam
"An economywide, multimarket (EMM) model was developed for Rwanda to analyze the linkages and trade-offs between growth and poverty reduction goals at both macro- and micro-economic levels. The model...
Growth and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments
Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Linxiu, Zhang, Xiaobo
Public investment, together with institutional and policy reforms, has contributed substantially to rapid economic growth in rural China since the late 1970s. This rapid growth has also led to...
Public investment and regional inequality in rural China:
This paper develops a method for decomposing the contributions of various types of public investment on regional inequality and applies the method to rural China. Public investments are found to have...
How agricultural research affects urban poverty in developing countries: the case of China
Fan, Shenggen, Fang, Cheng, Zhang, Xiaobo
This paper develops a framework to measure the impact of agricultural research on urban poverty. Increased investments in agricultural R&D can lower food prices by increasing food production, and...
How productive is infrastructure?: new approach and evidence from rural India
There have been competing arguments about the effect of public infrastructure on productivity in the literature. Level-based regressions generally show a much higher return to public capital than...
Local governance and public goods provision in rural China:
Zhang, Xiaobo, Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Linxiu, Huang, Jikun
In developing countries, identifying the most effective community-level governance structure is a key issue and, increasingly, empirical evaluation of the effects of democratization on the provision...
Agricultural research and urban poverty in India:
Using a similar analytical approach to a study in China, this paper analyzes the impact of agricultural research on urban poverty reduction in India. State level data from 1970 to 1995 were used in...
Public spending in developing countries: trends, determination, and impact
The objective of this paper is to review trends in government expenditures in the developing world, to analyze the causes of change, and to develop an analytical framework for determining the...
Fan, Shenggen, Chan-Kang, Connie, Qian, Keming, Krishnaiah, K.
The study attempts to measure the total benefits from rice varietal improvement research in China and India using variety adoption and performance data over the last two decades. It then uses genetic...
Resource abundance and regional development in China:
Zhang, Xiaobo, Xing, Li, Fan, Shenggen, Luo, Xiaopeng
"Over the past several decades, China has made tremendous progress in market integration and infrastructure development. Demand for natural resources has increased from the booming coastal economies,...
Investment, subsiddies, and pro-poor growth in rural India:
Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Thorat, Sukhadeo
"This paper reviews the trends in government subsidies and investments in and for Indian agriculture; develops a conceptual framework and model to assess the impact of various subsidies and...
Resource abundance and regional development in China
Xiaobo Zhang, Li Xing, Shenggen Fan, Xiaopeng Luo
Over the past several decades, China has made tremendous progress in market integration and infrastructure development. Demand for natural resources has increased from the booming coastal economies,...
Public expenditure, growth, and poverty reduction in rural Uganda
Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Xiaobo, Rao, Neetha
"Using district-level data for 1992, 1995, and 1999, the study estimated effects of different types of government expenditure on agricultural growth and rural poverty in Uganda. The results reveal...
The importance of public investment for reducing rural poverty in middle-income countries
Fan, Shenggen, Jitsuchon, Somchai, Methakunnavut, Nuntaporn
This study estimates the impacts of different types of government expenditure on agricultural growth and rural poverty in Thailand. The results show that, despite Thailand's middle-income status,...
Institutions and economic policies for pro-poor agricultural growth
Dorward, Andrew, Fan, Shenggen, Kydd, Jonathan, Lofgren, Hans, Morrison, Jamie, Poulton, Colin, ...
"This paper draws together findings from different elements of a research project examining critical components of pro-poor agricultural growth and of policies that can promote such growth in poor...
How China's WTO accession affects rural economy in the less-developed regions
Diao, Xinshen, Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Xiaobo
This study constructs a regional CGE model of China to analyze the differential regional impacts of China's WTO accession on agricultural production, trade, and farmers' income. The results show that...
The Path of Technology Diffusion: Which Neighbors to Learn From?
Xiaobo Zhang, Shenggen Fan, Ximing Cai
This study uses a panel data set of 25 years over 280 districts in rural India and applies a geographic information systems (GIS) program to investigate the regional neighborhood effect on the rate...
Fan, Shenggen, Wailes, Eric J, Young, Kenneth B
This paper uses a frontier production function approach to quantify the separate effects of policy reforms, technological change, and increased input use on production growth in Egyptian rice...
Investment, subsidies, and pro-poor growth in rural India
Shenggen Fan, Ashok Gulati, Sukhadeo Thorat
This article reviews the trends in government subsidies and investments in and for Indian agriculture; develops a conceptual framework and a model to assess the impact of various subsidies and...
Alternativas criticas para a politica agricola da China:
East Asia, East and Southeast Asia, Grain Economic aspects China., Grain production., Grain trade.,
High food prices: The what, who, and how of proposed policy actions
Von Braun, Joachim, Ahmed, Akhter, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Hoddinott, John, ...
"The complex causes of the current food and agriculture crisis require a comprehensive response. In view of the urgency of assisting people and countries in need, the first set of policy actions—...
Hausse des prix alimentaires et actions stratégiques proposées: Que faire, par qui et comment
Von Braun, Joachim, Ahmed, Akhter, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Hoddinott, John, ...
"La complexité des causes de la crise actuelle en matière d'alimentation et d'agriculture exige une réponse exhaustive. Compte tenu de l'urgence de l'aide à apporter aux personnes et aux pays...
Hohe Nahrungsmittelpreise: Konzept f ür die Wege aus der Krise
Von Braun, Joachim, Ahmed, Akhter, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Hoddinott, John, ...
"Die vielschichtigen Ursachen der gegenwärtigen Krise im Bereich der Nahrungsmittelproduktion und Landwirtschaft erfordern eine umfassende globale Antwort. Angesichts der dringend benötigen Hilfe...
High food prices: The what, who, and how of proposed policy actions [In Chinese]
Von Braun, Joachim, Ahmed, Akhter, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Hoddinott, John, ...
"The complex causes of the current food and agriculture crisis require a comprehensive response. In view of the urgency of assisting people and countries in need, the first set of policy actions—...
Von Braun, Joachim, Ahmed, Akhter, Asenso-Okyere, Kwadwo, Fan, Shenggen, Gulati, Ashok, Hoddinott, John, ...
"La complejidad de las causas de la actual crisis alimentaria y agrícola requiere de una respuesta integral. En vista de que es urgente prestar asistencia a las poblaciones y los países...
Investing in agriculture to overcome the world food crisis and reduce poverty and hunger:
Fan, Shenggen, Rosegrant, Mark W.
"In many parts of the world, increased agricultural growth will play a key role in addressing the current world food crisis, in contributing to overall economic growth, and in helping to achieve the...
Resource abundance and regional development in China
Xiaobo Zhang, Li Xing, Shenggen Fan, Xiaopeng Luo
Over the past several decades, China has made tremendous progress in market integration and infrastructure development. Demand for natural resources has increased from the booming coastal economies,...
How to mobilize public resources to support poverty reduction:
Fan, Shenggen, Saurkar, Anuja, Shields, Ghada
Hunger, Developing countries, Agricultural spending, Government spending, Poverty reduction, Strategies in public spending, Increasing efficiency, Public investment,
Investment priorities for economic growth and poverty reduction:
Fan, Shenggen, Brzeska, Joanna, Shields, Ghada
Developing countries, Agricultural spending, Government spending, Poverty reduction, Public investment,
Uganda & Tanzania: pro-poor public investment
Fan, Shenggen, Nyange, David, Zhang, Xiaobo
Pro-poor growth, Poverty reduction, Rural growth, Rural education, Agricultural research, Agricultural extension work,
The dragon and the elephant: Learning from agricultural and rural reforms in China and India
"During the past two-and-a-half decades, China and India have implemented a series of economic reforms that have led to recent growth rates of 9-11 percent per year in China and 8-9 percent per year...
Public expenditures, growth, and poverty in developing countries: Lessons from developing countries
"During the past several decades, developing countries have had mixed results in reducing poverty. While East Asia (particularly China) has achieved astonishing progress in eradicating severe poverty...
Von Braun, Joachim, Fan, Shenggen, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth, Rosegrant, Mark W., Pratt, Alejandro Nin
Developing countries, CGIAR, Food prices, Poverty reduction, Hunger, Agricultural research, food security, Environment, Agricultural innovation, Agricultural development, Climate change, Agricultural...
Agricultural and economic development strategies and the transformation of China and India:
Von Braun, Joachim, Gulati, Ashok, Fan, Shenggen
"The reform experiences of China and India—similar in some ways and different in others—shed light on the enormous potential for investments and policies in support of pro-poor agricultural and...
Von Braun, Joachim, Gulati, Ashok, Fan, Shenggen, Ahluwalia, Montek S., Liu, Jian
"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or...
Von Braun, Joachim, Gulati, Ashok, Fan, Shenggen, Ahluwalia, Montek S., Liu, Jian
"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or...
Von Braun, Joachim, Gulati, Ashok, Fan, Shenggen, Ahluwalia, Montek S., Liu, Jian
"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or...
Von Braun, Joachim, Gulati, Ashok, Fan, Shenggen, Ahluwalia, Montek S., Liu, Jian
"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or...
Induced Technical Change in Centrally Planned Economies
Fan, Shenggen, Ruttan, Vernon W.
It has generally been assumed that the inferences of the induced technical change model with respect to the direction of technical change could not be expected to hold for the centrally planned...
INFRASTRUCTURE, OPENNESS, AND REGIONAL INEQUALITY IN INDIA
This paper aims to quantify the driving forces behind the observed divergence of Indian economy. The results show that in a closed economy with agriculture as the predominant mode of production, the...
ESTIMATING CROP-SPECIFIC PRODUCTION GROWTH AND SOURCES IN CHINA
This study uses aggregated provincial level data from 1979 to 2000 to estimate crop-specific production functions and identifies the sources of production growth for wheat, corn, soybean, rapeseeds,...
The Role of Agribusiness Firms in Agricultural Research: The Case of China
Zhang, Huijie, Fan, Shenggen, Qian, Keming
Despite the efforts of various economists and agricultural scientists in calling for more investments, funding for agricultural R&D has been stagnated for the last two decades in China. This will...
How Effective is Public Spending? Public Investment Composition and Rural Welfare in Ethiopia
Mogues, Tewodaj, Ayele, Gezagehn, Paulos, Zelekawork, Fan, Shenggen
One of the most important policy tools in developing countries for affecting economic growth and poverty reduction is expenditure policy. As governments decide how to allocate public spending, they...
EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND INSTITUTIONAL REFORM ON PRODUCTION GROWTH IN CHINESE AGRICULTURE
International Development,
National and International Agricultural Research and Poverty: Findings in the case of wheat in China
Chan-Kang, Connie, Fan, Shenggen, Qian, Keming
The objective of this paper is to assess the economic and poverty impact of wheat research in China and the contribution of CIMMYT. Our results show that wheat research conducted by China and CIMMYT...
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC GOODS DEPENDENCY
Few studies have systematically documented the interdependency among different types of public goods and their impact on economic development. This papers aims to develop a methodological framework...
HOW AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AFFECTS URBAN POVERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES? THE CASE OF CHINA
Fan, Shenggen, Fang, Cheng, Zhang, Xiaobo
The objective of this paper is to analyze how agricultural research and development have affected urban poverty using China as an example. Agricultural research lower food prices, and therefore help...
LOCAL GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC GOODS PROVISION
Zhang, Xiaobo, Fan, Shenggen, Zhang, Linxiu, Huang, Jikun
Since the early nineties, tens of thousands of villages have held elections of their leaders in rural China. Using a recent village survey, this paper empirically examines the impact of election on...
Evolution of Income and Fiscal Disparity in Rural China
This paper's goal is to increase the understanding of the income and fiscal inequality trends in rural China. Using a comprehensive county-level panel dataset between 1993 and 2002, we describe the...
Village Inequality in Western China
Xing, Li, Fan, Shenggen, Luo, Xiaopeng, Zhang, Xiaobo
Increased regional inequality has been a major concern in many emerging economies like China, India, Vietnam and Thailand. However, even a large inequality is observed within the lagging regions. The...
Diao, Xinshen, Fan, Shenggen, Headey, Derek, Johnson, Michael, Nin Pratt, Alejandro, Yu, Bingxin
"In Africa the global food crisis threatens the livelihoods of millions of people who because of high rates of poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and food dependency are already exceptionally vulnerable....
Anatomy of a crisis: The causes and consequences of surging food prices
"Although the potential causes and consequences of recent increases in international food prices have attracted widespread attention, many existing appraisals are superficial and/or piecemeal. This...
Does Allocation of Public Spending Matter in Poverty Reduction? Evidence from Thailand *
Shenggen Fan, Bingxin Yu, Somchai Jitsuchon
The present paper uses a panel dataset to estimate the marginal returns to different types of government expenditure on agricultural growth and rural poverty reduction in Thailand. The study finds...
Anatomy of a crisis: the causes and consequences of surging food prices
Although the potential causes and consequences of recent rising international food prices have attracted widespread attention, many existing appraisals are superficial and/or piecemeal. This article...
This paper develops a frontier shadow cost function approach to estimate empirically the effects of technological change, technical and allocative efficiency improvement in Chinese agriculture during...
Setting priorities for public spending for agricultural and rural development in Africa:
Fan, Shenggen, Mogues, Tewodaj, Benin, Sam
"Agriculture and rural development must play a central role in stimulating economic growth, reducing poverty, and improving food and nutrition security in Africa. The food price crisis of 2007–08...
Regional road development, rural and urban poverty: Evidence from China
Fan, Shenggen, Chan-Kang, Connie
The study estimates the impact of road investments on overall economic growth, rural and urban growth, and rural and urban poverty reduction. To achieve these goals, an econometric model that...
THE PATH OF TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION: WHICH NEIGHBORS TO LEARN FROM?
Xiaobo Zhang, Shenggen Fan, Ximing Cai
This study uses a panel data set of 25 years over 280 districts in rural India and applies a geographic information systems (GIS) program to investigate the regional neighborhood effect on the rate...
Regional Inequality In China: An Overview
Fan, Shenggen, Kanbur, Ravi, Zhang, Xiaobo
Chinaâs spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social compact and thus the political basis for economic growth and social...
Rethinking China's underurbanization: An evaluation of its county-to-city upgrading policy
Fan, Shenggen, Li, Lixing, Zhang, Xiaobo
"It has been argued in the literature that China is underurbanized in large part because of restrictions on migration. While the presence of migration barriers can help explain why existing cities...
Navigating the perfect storm: Reflections on the food, energy, and financial crises
Headey, Derek, Malaiyandi, Sangeetha, Fan, Shenggen
"The closely interlinked food, fuel and financial crises pose a significant new challenge to the global effort to reduce poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force...
Community poverty and inequality in western China: A tale of three villages in Guizhou Province
XING, Li, FAN, Shenggen, LUO, Xiaopeng, ZHang, Xiaobo
Using a census survey of households in Guizhou Province, this paper examines the patterns of village poverty and inequality and their major correlates. The results show that poverty incidences vary...