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Seoul Journal of Economics
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Seoul Journal of Economics - Vol. 19, No. 3, pp.313-328
ISSN: 1225-0279 (Print)
Print publication date 31 Aug 2006
Received 30 Nov 2005 Revised 17 Mar 2006

A New Perspective to Solve the Issues Concerning “Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers” - Economics Analyses and Policy Proposals

Xie An
Professor, School of Humanities and Social Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China, Tel: +86-10-62797999, Fax: +86-10-62795039 xa@tsinghua.edu.cn

JEL Classfication: F32

Abstract

Currently, the consciousness of solving the issues concerning “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” from their outside is getting more and more fierce, which has caused “overemphasis on urbanization, neglect of rural development.” If the unhealthy trend cannot get rectified in time, not only the knot of “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers” will be hard to solve, but also the “Dual Economy” of city and country will get into vicious cycle and develop in an abnormal way under the new situations. Motivated by this concern and after insight research, the author wrote this paper, which draws three basic but should not be neglected conclusion with the reference of some similar international practice and the employment of related theoretical frame of development economics.

Keywords:

Agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, A new perspective, Economics analysis, Policy proposal

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