Many fear China’s accession to WTO will impoverish its rural people, via greater import competition in its agricultural markets. We explore that possibility bearing in mind that, even if producer prices of some (land-intensive) farm products fall, prices of other (labor-intensive) farm products could rise. Also, the removal of restrictions on exports of textiles and clothing could boost town an...

This paper explores the link between polarization and inequality and proposes some analytical methods to decompose the Duclos, Esteban, and Ray (2004) polarization index by population groups or income sources. In some cases, the decomposition methods were extended to the Esteban and Ray (1994) one. The main aim of these decomposition methods is to extend the interpretation derived from polariza...

The paper investigates the impact of different sources income on farm household inequality in Hungary using Farm Accountancy Data Network dataset for period 2007-2015. decomposition Gini coefficients by is applied to focus policy shift from market government support inequality. Off-farm are rather stable with a slight increase Pillar 1 direct subsidies have remained more important than 2 rural ...

Farmland values are booming across much of the nation and farm credit conditions are solid. There are few exceptions to these broad-based trends according to results of surveys of agricultural credit conditions conducted by several Federal Reserve district banks. Farm and ranch land values have been climbing in recent years, but have showed particular strength since mid-2004. Strong farm income...

In 1992, the EU initiated the process of decoupling income transfers from agricultural production which has culminated in the 2003 reform of the common agricultural policy (CAP). In this reform 'single farm payments' have been introduced which are based on direct payments during the reference period 2000-2002. We use statistics of such payments to explore the distribution patterns across farm h...

for “Distribution Dynamics of the Per Capita Income in Mexico, 1990-2010: Convergence across Municipalities” Stephen Klasen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) Carlos Villalobos Barría (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) Sebastian Vollmer (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) This study focuses on the inequality dynamics of the Mexican distribution of the mean per ca...