selected publications
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article
- Impact of COVID-19 on China's macroeconomy and agri-food system - an economy-wide multiplier model analysis. China Agricultural Economic Review. 12:387-407. 2020
- The Role of Smallholder Farms in a Changing World 2020
- Some lessons from a life in food policy. GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT. 22:33-36. 2019
- Food policy in 2016-2017: Food security and nutrition in an urbanizing world [in Chinese] 2017
- Food security and nutrition in an urbanizing world A synthesis of the 2017 Global Food Policy Report. China Agricultural Economic Review. 9:162-168. 2017
- Is Agricultural Investment in China Affected by Economic Slowdown 2017
- Smallholders and urbanization: Strengthening rural-urban linkages to end hunger and malnutrition [in Chinese] 2017
- Supporting Country-Driven Innovations and Agrifood Value Chains for Poverty and Hunger Reduction 2017
- Sustainable food security and nutrition: Demystifying conventional beliefs. GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT. 11:11-16. 2016
- Changement climatique et agriculture: Renforcer le rôle des petits agriculteurs 2016
- Climate change and agriculture: Strengthening the role of smallholders [in Arabic] 2016
- Climate change and agriculture: Strengthening the role of smallholders [in Chinese] 2016
- Ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025: the role of horticultural value chains 2016
- Achieving food and nutrition security under rapid transformation in China and India. China Agricultural Economic Review. 7:530-540. 2015
- Social protection for poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. China Agricultural Economic Review. 7:668-687. 2015
- Trends and Composition of Public Expenditures: A Global and Regional Perspective. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH. 27:353-370. 2015
- Building a resilient global food system 2015
- Fortes avancées et revers persistants 2015
- Special Issue: Public investments in and for agriculture 2015
- Vaincre la faim et la malnutrition dans les pays à revenu intermédiaire 2015
- Food Policy in 2013: Ending Hunger and Undernutrition Sustainably by 2025. EuroChoices. 13:5-11. 2014
- Moving from vision to reality: ending hunger and under nutrition in Africa by 2025 2014
- Steadying the ladder: China's agricultural and rural development engagement in Africa. China Agricultural Economic Review. 6:2-20. 2014
- Moving from vision to reality, Ending hunger and under nutrition in Africa by 2025. Ghanaian Journal of Economics. 2014
- The Economics of China: Successes and Challenges. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2013
- What Policy Changes Will Reverse Persistent Malnutrition in Asia. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH. 25:28-35. 2013
- The Impacts of Public Investment in and for Agriculture: Synthesis of the Existing Evidence 2012
- Challenges of creating cities in China: Lessons from a short-lived county-to-city upgrading policy. Journal of Comparative Economics. 40:476-491. 2012
- From Famine to Food Security: A New Agenda and Approach Must be Adopted De la famine à la sécurité alimentaire : il faut adopter un nouvel ordre du jour et une approche nouvelle Von der Hungersnot zur Ernährungssicherung: Eine neue Agenda und ein neuer Ansatz müssen her. EuroChoices. 11:4-9. 2012
- Achieving food security while switching to low carbon agriculture. JOURNAL OF RENEWABLE AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY. 4. 2012
- Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health 2012
- Road condition in Southwestern mountainous areas and Households' food availability, Based on the analysis of Guizhou household Survey [in Chinese]. Issues in Agricultural Economy. 2012
- Strategies and priorities for African agriculture, Economywide perspectives from country studies 2012
- Rice Production Response in Cambodia. Agricultural Economics. 42:437-450. 2011
- A second food crisis in three years, Impacts, responses and future actions 2011
- Cash-strapped Europe should still do more to tackle global poverty 2011
- China’s Regional Disparities: Experience and Policy. Review of Development Finance. 1:47-56. 2011
- Des actions urgentes s'imposent pour éviter les crises alimentaires récurrentes 2011
- Development assistance and investment in agriculture, Promises and facts 2011
- Growing biofuel demand and international food prices 2011
- Urgent actions needed to prevent recurring food crises [In Chinese] 2011
- Inequality in the Ethnic Direct Transition Rural Areas of China: From Survey Data of Households in Yunnan 2010
- Comparisons of agricultural productivity growth in China and India. Journal of Productivity Analysis. 33:209-223. 2010
- Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Rwanda 2010
- Halving hunger, Meeting the First Millennium Development Goal through "Business as Unusual" [in Chinese] 2010
- Inaugural ceremony addresses 2010
- Navigating the perfect storm: reflections on the food, energy, and financial crises. Agricultural Economics. 41:217-228. 2010
- O Papel dos Países Emergentes na Segurança Alimentar Mundial 2010
- Production, Productivity, and Public Investment in East Asian Agriculture. Handbook of Agricultural Economics. 4:3401-3434. 2010
- Reflections on the global food crisis, How did it happen? How has it hurt? And how can we prevent the next one? 2010
- Community poverty and inequality in western China: A tale of three villages in Guizhou Province☆. China Economic Review. 20:338-349. 2009
- Public expenditure tracking in Africa:, Trends and composition 2009
- Rethinking China's underurbanization, An evaluation of its county-to-city upgrading policy 2009
- Rice Production Response in Cambodia 2009
- Setting priorities for public spending for agricultural and rural development in Africa 2009
- The total factor productivity in China and India: new measures and approaches. China Agricultural Economic Review. 1:9-22. 2009
- Does Allocation of Public Spending Matter in Poverty Reduction? Evidence from Thailand*. Asian Economic Journal. 22:411-430. 2008
- Anatomy of a crisis: The causes and consequences of surging food prices. Agricultural Economics. 39:375-391. 2008
- Investment, subsidies, and pro‐poor growth in rural India. Agricultural Economics. 39:163-170. 2008
- Regional road development, rural and urban poverty: Evidence from China. Transport Policy. 15:305-314. 2008
- Comment la croissance rapide de la Chine peut-elle profi ter aux pauvres d'Afrique grâce au développement rural et agricole [In French] 2008
- Hausse des prix alimentaires et actions stratégiques proposées: Que faire, par qui et comment 2008
- Inequality in western rural China, A household analysis in Guizhou province [in Chinese] 2008
- Investing in African Agriculture to Halve Poverty by 2015 2008
- Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Uganda's Poverty Eradication Action Plan, Summary and Main objectives.. AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT REVIEW-REVUE AFRICAINE DE DEVELOPPEMENT. 20:466-496. 2008
- Resource Abundance and Regional Development in China. Economics of Transition. 16:7-29. 2008
- Striking a balance, Mitigating rural-urban disparities in China and India 2008
- The dragon and the elephant, Learning from agricultural and rural reforms in China and India 2008
- Investment, subsidies, and pro-poor growth in rural India 2007
- Public investment and poverty reduction, Lessons from China and India 2007
- Agricultural R&D and urban poverty 2006
- China: an unfinished reform agenda 2006
- National and international agricultural research and rural poverty: the case of rice research in India and China. Agricultural Economics. 33:369-379. 2005
- Public investment and poverty reduction in Tanzania: evidence from household survey data 2005
- Agricultural and economic development strategies and the transformation of China and India 2005
- Is small beautiful? Farm size, productivity, and poverty in Asian agriculture. Agricultural Economics. 32:135-146. 2005
- Local governance and public goods provision in rural China. Journal of Public Economics. 88:2857-2871. 2004
- Institutions and Policies for Pro-poor Agricultural Growth. Development Policy Review. 22:611-622. 2004
- Returns to investment in less-favored areas in developing countries: a synthesis of evidence and implications for Africa. Food Policy. 29:431-444. 2004
- How Productive Is Infrastructure? A New Approach and Evidence from Rural India. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 86:492-501. 2004
- Public investment and regional inequality in rural China. Agricultural Economics. 30:89-100. 2004
- How productive is infrastructure? new approach and evidence from rural India 2004
- Infrastructure and regional economic development in rural China. China Economic Review. 15:203-214. 2004
- Institutions and economic policies for pro-poor agricultural growth 2004
- International symposium on China agricultural policy, A summary [in Chinese] 2004
- Public expenditure, growth, and poverty reduction in rural Uganda 2004
- Reforms, investment, and poverty in rural China. Economic Development and Cultural Change. vol. 52. 2004
- Structural Change and Economic Growth in China. Review of Development Economics. 7:360-377. 2003
- China's WTO accession: impacts on regional agricultural income-- a multi-region, general equilibrium analysis. Journal of Comparative Economics. 31:332-351. 2003
- Agricultural Research and Urban Poverty: The Case of China. World Development. 31:733-741. 2003
- Agricultural research and urban poverty in India. Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture. 2003
- Is Small Beautiful? Farm Size, Productivity, and Poverty in Asian Agriculture 2003
- Local governance and public goods provision in rural China. China Economic Quarterly. Journal article http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15738coll5/id/1765. 2003
- National and international agricultural research and rural poverty, the case of rice research in India and China 2003
- Emergence of urban poverty and inequality in China: evidence from household survey☆. China Economic Review. 13:430-443. 2002
- THE PATH OF TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION: WHICH NEIGHBORS TO LEARN FROM?. Contemporary Economic Policy. 20:470-478. 2002
- A study on the factors affecting farmers' agricultural production investment [in Chinese] 2002
- Agricultural research and urban poverty in India 2002
- Emergence of urban poverty and inequality in China: evidence from household surveys 2002
- Growth and poverty effects of government spending in rural China [in Chinese] 2002
- Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China, the role of public investments 2002
- Growth, inequality, and poverty in rural China: the role of public investments [In Chinese] 2002
- How China's WTO accession affects rural economy in the less-developed regions, a multi-region, general equilibrium analysis 2002
- Production and productivity growth in Chinese agriculture: New national and regional measures. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 50:819-838. 2002
- Structural Change and Economic Growth in China [in Chinese] 2002
- The importance of public investments and institutions for the functioning of food markets in developing countries 2002
- Returns to Public Investments in the Less-Favored Areas of India and China. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 83:1217-1222. 2001
- Estimating Crop-Specific Production Technologies in Chinese Agriculture: A Generalized Maximum Entropy Approach. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 83:378-388. 2001
- How agricultural research affects urban poverty in developing countries, the case of China 2001
- How does public spending affect growth and poverty in China? 2001
- How productive is infrastructure?, new approach and evidence from rural India 2001
- Research Investment and the Economic Returns To Chinese Agricultural Research. Journal of Productivity Analysis. 14:163-182. 2000
- Targeting public investments by agro-ecological zone to achieve growth and poverty alleviation goals in rural India. Food Policy. 25:411-428. 2000
- Technological change, technical and allocative efficiency in Chinese agriculture: the case of rice production in Jiangsu. Journal of International Development. 12:1-12. 2000
- Government spending, growth and poverty in rural India. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 82:1038-1051. 2000
- Growth and poverty in rural China, the role of public investments 2000
- Impact of public expenditure on poverty in rural India 2000
- Public investment and regional inequality in rural China. 2000
- Should developing countries invest more in less-favoured areas? An empirical analysis of rural India. Economic and Political Weekly. 35 (17). 2000
- Are returns to public investment lower in less-favored rural areas?, an empirical analysis of India 1999
- Critical choices for China's agricultural policy 1999
- Linkages between government spending, growth, and poverty in rural India 1999
- Past and future sources of growth for China 1999
- Growth of agricultural output and productivity growth, A new method of measurement and conclusion 1998
- Policy Reforms and Technological Change in Egyptian Rice Production: a Frontier Production Function Approach. Journal of African Economies. 6:391-411. 1997
- Production and productivity growth in Chinese agriculture: new measurement and evidence. Food Policy. 22:213-228. 1997
- Research, productivity, and output growth in Chinese agriculture. Journal of Development Economics. 53:115-137. 1997
- Why projections on China’s future food supply and demand differ. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 41:169-190. 1997
- Economic returns to investment in Chinese agriculture [in Chinese] 1997
- Should India invest more in less-favored areas? 1997
- Why do projections on China's future food supply and demand differ? 1997
- Role of inputs, institutions, and technical innovations in stimulating growth in Chinese agriculture 1995
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book
- The Oxford companion to the economics of China 2014
- Narratives of Chinese economic reforms, How does China cross the river? 2010
- Public policy and rural poverty in Western China 2010
- Regional inequality in China, Trends, explanations and policy responses 2009
- The dragon and the elephant, Agricultural and rural reforms in China and India 2008
- Poverty reduction strategy in the new millennium, Emerging issues, experiences, and lessons 2007
- The dragon and the elephant, Agricultural and rural reforms in China and India [In Chinese]. Ed. Google Books: http://books.google.com/books/about/The_dragon_and_the_elephant.html?id=Uw7tAAAAMAAJ Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Dragon-Elephant-Agricultural-International/dp/0801887879. 2007
- Agricultural R&D and poverty 2006
- Road development, economic growth, and poverty reduction [In Chinese] 2006
- Globalization and small farm-holders 2005
- Dare to dream, Vision of 2050 Agriculture in China 2004
- Analysis of research priorities in Jiangsu agricultural research, The case of rice, wheat, rapeseed, and cotton [Chinese] 1997
- Agricultural research in China, Its impact and institutional development 1992
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chapter
- Food policy in 2014-2015: Strong advances and stubborn setbacks [in Chinese] 2015
- Comment on "Food price volatility and domestic stabilization policies in developing countries by Christophe Gouel" 2014
- Food policy in 2013: Nutrition Grabs the spotlight as hunger persists 2014
- Introduction [In Resilience for food and nutrition security] 2014
- Lowering food price spikes for a resilient food system 2014
- The way forward for building resilience 2014
- Food policy 2012: Walk the talk 2013
- Role of emerging countries in climate-smart agriculture 2013
- Agricultural growth and poverty reduction impacts of public investments, Assessment of concepts and techniques 2012
- Investing in African agriculture to halve poverty by 2015 2012
- Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health: The Way Forward 2012
- Low carbon agriculture 2012
- Overview [in Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health] 2012
- Overview: Major Food Policy Developments in 2011 2012
- Public expenditure, growth and poverty reduction in rural Uganda 2012
- Public investment and poverty reduction in Tanzania, Evidence from household survey data 2012
- Public spending for agriculture in Africa, Definition, measures and trends 2012
- The Nexus between Agriculture and Nutrition: Do Growth Patterns and Conditional Factors Matter? 2012
- Economic growth and social protection for the poor and vulnerable 2010
- Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Rwanda 2008
- Public investment, growth, and rural poverty 2008
- Public spending in developing countries, Trends, determination and impact 2008
- Fiscal decentralization, nonfarm development, and spatial inequality in rural China 2007
- Introduction [Public policy and poverty reduction in the Arab region] 2007
- Linkages between government spending, growth, and poverty in India and China 2007
- Linkages between government spending, growth, and poverty in Uganda and Tanzania 2007
- Major findings and lessons learned 2007
- Public investment, growth, and poverty reduction, A comparative analysis of India and China 2007
- Public spending, growth, and poverty reduction in Egypt, A multi-level analysis 2007
- Synthesis Lessons and challenges 2007
- Ups and downs in income and fiscal disparities in rural China, Implications for future growth and poverty reduction 2007
- Village inequality in Western China, Implications for development strategy in lagging regions 2007
- Production and productivity growth in Chinese agriculture: new national and regional measures 2006
- The development of Chinese agroenterprises and private agricultural research and development. [In Chinese] 2005
- Reforming Chinese agricultural R&D policy for growth and poverty reduction 2002
- Urban poverty and inequality in the era of reforms 2002
- Balancing regional development priorities to achieve sustainable and equitable agricultural growth 2000
- Agricultural investment in China: Measurement and policy issues. 1998
- Public investment in rural China: Historical trends and policy issues 1998
- Trends in financing Asian and Australian agricultural research 1998
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conference paper
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document
- Food policy in 2016-2017: Food security and nutrition in an urbanizing world 2017
- Food security and nutrition in an urbanising world 2017
- Smallholders and urbanization: Strengthening rural-urban linkages to end hunger and malnutrition 2017
- Food policy in 2015-2016: Reshaping the global food system for sustainable development 2016
- Making agriculture resilient to bad weather 2016
- Food policy in 2014-2015: Strong advances and stubborn setbacks 2015
- Food policy in 2014-2015: Strong advances and stubborn setbacks [in Russian] 2015
- Reaching the missing middle: Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in middle income countries [in Russian] 2015
- Resilience for food and nutrition security 2014
- Ensuring food and nutrition security in a green economy 2012
- Reducing the risk of food and nutrition insecurity among vulnerable populations 2012
- Rwanda 2012
- The nexus between agriculture and nutrition, Do growth patterns and conditional factors matter? 2011
- Halving hunger, Meeting the First Millennium Development Goal through "Business as Unusual" 2010
- Mountains, global food prices, and food security in the developing world 2010
- Reducir el hambre a la mitad, Consecución del primer Objetivo de Desarrollo mediante un enfoque inusual 2010
- Rice production responses in Cambodia 2009
- Accelerating Africa's food production in response to rising food prices: Impacts and requisite actions 2008
- High food prices: The what, who, and how of proposed policy actions 2008
- International agricultural research for food security, poverty reduction, and the environment, What to expect from scaling up CGIAR investments and 'Best Bet' programs 2008
- Invertir en agricultura para superar la crisis alimentaria mundial y reducir la pobreza y el hambre 2008
- Los altos precios de los alimentos: El ‘qué', ‘quién' y ‘cómo' de las acciones de política propuestas 2008
- The dragon and the elephant, Learning from agricultural and rural reforms in China and India 2008
- Towards a pro-poor agricultural growth strategy in Nigeria 2008
- Agricultural growth and investment options for poverty reduction in Rwanda 2007
- The dragon and the elephant, Agricultural and rural reforms in China and India 2007
- A multi-level analysis of public spending, growth and poverty reduction in Egypt 2006
- Village inequality in Western China, Implications for development strategy in lagging regions 2006
- Lessons learned from the dragon (China) and the elephant (India), Essays from IFPRI's 2004-2005 Annual Report 2005
- Public investment and poverty reduction in Tanzania, evidence from household survey data 2005
- Road development, economic growth, and poverty reduction in China [In Chinese] 2005
- Rural and urban dynamics and poverty: Evidence from China and India 2005
- The dragon and the elephant, Agricultural and rural reforms in China and India 2005
- Road development, economic growth, and poverty reduction in China 2004
- The importance of public investment for reducing rural poverty in middle-income countries, the case of Thailand 2004
- National and international agricultural research and rural poverty: the case of rice in India and China 2003
- Public spending in developing countries, trends, determination, and impact 2003
- Estimating crop-specific production technologies in Chinese agriculture, a generalized maximum entropy approach 1999
- Government spending, growth and poverty, an analysis of interlinkages in rural India 1998
- Hidden harvest, U.S. benefits from international research aid 1996
- Summary of a productive partnership, the benefits from U.S. participation in the CGIAR 1996
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editorial article
- Bundling innovations to transform agri-food systems. NATURE SUSTAINABILITY. 3:974-976. 2020
- Comment on "Agricultural (Dis) Incentives and Food Security: Is there a Link?". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 99:872-873. 2017
- Public Investments in and for Agriculture. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH. 27:337-352. 2015
- Agricultural growth, poverty reduction and agro-ecological zones in India: an ecological fallacy?. Food Policy. 28:433-436. 2003
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report
- Building a resilient global food system by lowering food price spikes and volatility 2014
- From subsistence to profit: Transforming smallholder farms 2013
- Reducing hunger and poverty in Asia: Investment priorities for economic growth and poverty reduction in Asia 2008
- Tracking agricultural spending for agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Africa 2008
- Investing in African agriculture to halve poverty by 2015 2007
- Rethinking agricultural policies for pro-poor growth 2004
- Promoting sustainable development in less-favored areas [Japanese] 2000
- Alternativas criticas para a politica agricola da China 1999
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review
- Linking agriculture to nutrition: the evolution of policy. China Agricultural Economic Review. 595-604. 2020
- Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. LANCET. 447-492. 2019
- Food systems for sustainable development: proposals for a profound four-part transformation. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 41-41. 2018
- Returns to public agricultural and rural investments in China. China Agricultural Economic Review. 215-223. 2018
- Feeding More People on an Increasingly Fragile Planet：China’s Food and Nutrition Security in a National and Global Context. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 1193-1205. 2014
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working paper
- The economics of China, Successes and challenges 2013
- The impacts of public investment in and for agriculture, Synthesis of the existing evidence 2012
- Accelerating Africa's food production in response to rising food prices - impacts and requisite actions 2008
- Growth and poverty reduction impacts of public investments in agriculture and rural areas, Assessment Techniques, Tools and Guide for Practitioners 2008
- Regional strategic alternatives for agriculture-led growth and poverty reduction in West Africa 2008