From the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book
about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now--as seen from …

This article provides insights regarding the state of the literature on the economics of drip
irrigation adoption and diffusion. Our literature review finds that the methodological …

These romanticized or racist views of China from some of the best minds in Enlightenment
Europe cannot be attributed solely to the lack of information about China at the time because …

Beckley demonstrates that no country is poised to upend American primacy, not
economically, not militarily, and not technologically.... The evidence he assembles should be …

The present paper explores the impact of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) on agricultural
commodity prices (ACP) by employing bootstrap full-and subsample rolling-window Granger …

The original motive for this book was to help students make sense of the transition from the
conflict-ridden twentieth century to the new world of international politics, and to confront the …

This study aims to examine the impact of financial development on agricultural production in
the case of China. The study used country level time‐series data for the period 1989 to …

China is facing an unprecedented set of challenges in balancing the effects of economic
development and global climate change with environmental protection and maintaining …

Most climate change mitigation scenarios rely on increased use of bioenergy to decarbonize
the energy system. Here we use results from the 33rd Energy Modeling Forum study (EMF …

Many governments subsidize the agricultural industry, trying to raise the market outputs
either for domestic needs or for export. In many countries, particularly developing countries …