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Agriculture prices in China.

By: Lardy, Nicholas.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: World Bank Staff Working Paper. Publisher: Washington : World Bank, 1983Subject(s): Agricultural Prices | China -- Agriculture -- Pricing. -- China -- Agriculture -- Pricing. -- China -- Agriculture -- PricingSummary: Describes the major features of China's agricultural pricing system as they have evolved since 1949, but focusses on adjustments in the 1976-82 period. The paper suggests that state interventions in the agricultural pricing system provide disproportionately high benefits to relatively advantaged urban consumers and may restrict adjustments to more economically efficient production patterns in agriculture.
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Describes the major features of China's agricultural pricing system as they have evolved since 1949, but focusses on adjustments in the 1976-82 period. The paper suggests that state interventions in the agricultural pricing system provide disproportionately high benefits to relatively advantaged urban consumers and may restrict adjustments to more economically efficient production patterns in agriculture.

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