Property Rights and Incentives in Pre- and Post-Reform      Chinese Agriculture
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Much has been written about the importance of China's economic                  performance and political stability to regional and global                      prospects for the coming decades.  Within that context, the                     importance of China's agricultural sector, which still produces a               third of the country's gross domestic product and provides work                 for two thirds of its population, is obvious.  Roughly half of                  the developing world's and nearly a third of the entire world's                 farmers reside in China.  The importance of its agricultural                    sector to world crop production, to international agricultural                  trade, to meeting world food requirements, and to the welfare of                a large fraction of the world's poor or near-poor, is thus                      equally obvious.  Similar statements would apply to the part that               rural economic development in general will play in China's social               and economic evolution in the next half century.                                                                                                                This project studies productivity, factor allocation, incentive,                and income distribution features of the Chinese rural economy                   under sequential systems of property rights and economic                        organization at the micro level of households, production teams,                villages, and a rural people's commune or township.  The                        principal data set covers the period 1970 to 1985 and comes from                Dahe township near Shijiazhuang in the northern Chinese province                of Hebei.  During the period covered, the economic system was                   dominated by collective agricultural production in 1970-79, by                  household-based farming with mixed-form non-agricultural                        activities in 1983-85, and by a transitional regime in 1980-82.                                                                                                 Planned projects include simulation of the household contracting                system under alternative assumptions about the operation of                     markets, using parameter estimates based on Dahe data; analysis                 of the productivity effects of the adoption of both intermediate                and extreme forms of the household production responsibility                    system at Dahe; examination of the effects of contractual status                on the productivity of individual farm plots under the latter                   form of the PRS at Dahe; and analysis of the impacts of different               land allocation procedures on productivity and income                           distribution, including examination of the farm size/farm                       productivity relationship.
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