Comments on A Model of Household Savings and Alternative Investments in Rural China

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June 01 2019 Comments on A Model of Household Savings and Alternative Investments in Rural China Author and Article Information Online Issn: 1536-0083 Print Issn: 1535-3516 © 2019 by the Asian Economic Panel and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2019Asian Economic Panel and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Asian Economic Papers (2019) 18 (2): 163–164. https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00707 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Comments on A Model of Household Savings and Alternative Investments in Rural China. Asian Economic Papers 2019; 18 (2): 163–164. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00707 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsAsian Economic Papers Search Advanced Search Liping He, Beijing Normal University: Let me first highlight my appreciation of the logic of the paper and next offer my reflection on a conceptual issue in the paper. As noted by the four authors of the paper, (1) agriculture in China has been growing relatively slowly since the mid-1980s and the income gap between urban and rural households has become increasingly large ever since; (2) low productivity or slower progress in productivity in China's agricultural sector should be linked with problems of capital formation in the country's rural areas (i.e., decision making of Chinese rural households); and (3) as rural private savings in China are known to have been growing steadily at a significant pace throughout the recent decades, possible root causes of insufficient capital formation in the sector must lie elsewhere. It is against this backdrop that the paper investigates what factors have obstructed Chinese rural households in... You do not currently have access to this content.