Local Government’s Land Finance Dependence and Migrants’ Settlement Intentions: Evidence from China

Social Collateral and Repayment Performance: Evidence from Islamic Micro Finance

I n this study we designed to test the remarkable repayment performance of Akhuwat in Pakistan; the most successful Islamic Microfinance Institution (IMFI), which offers interest-free loans in order to improve the quality of life and alleviate poverty. The model of Akhuwat is based on Muakhaat (brotherhood) and Qard-e-Hasan (offering financial assi...

Ongoing Voluntary Settlement and Independent Agency: Evidence from China

Voluntary frontier settlement leads to independent agency. Since this type of research has not yet been implemented in ongoing voluntary settlement frontiers, we conducted several cultural tasks to investigate Shenzhen, known as China's ongoing "South Frontier," which is composed mostly of people that have emigrated from other Chinese provinces within the past 30 years. We hypothesized that res...

Consumers’ Purchase Intentions toward Traceable Beef—Evidence from Beijing, China

The utility of food traceability standards aims to reduce the of food security and to provide consumers with targeted information. A survey has been conducted on sample of consumers in Beijing (n = 234), aiming to explain the intention toward purchasing traceable beef using the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Based on the TPB, the present study has added new variable: past experience. Structu...

Land Security and Labor Specialization : Evidence from Rural China

This paper develops a model to understand the mechanism that might explain how land rights security may facilitate labor specialization. The theoretical framework suggests that with secured land rights, households with high farming ability are likely to invest in land while households with low farming ability tend to investment in human capital and migrate. Land security is identified as whethe...

Soft-Budget Constraint on Local Governments in China