Indeed, poverty does not only depend on resource endowments, population size, economic and social policies, but also on the kinds of economic activities that are being undertaken (Dogarawa 2009).
This shows clearly that variation in income of farm households in the study area, conditional on their resource endowment, is predominantly due to inefficiency in their allocation of production resources.
In China, developing industries based on the regional resource endowment is an important approach to increase GDP in many regions in the past few decades.
Significant dispersion exists among countries in terms of the d i /x i coefficient for these products, which depends on the natural resource endowment of the countries that transform them.
The frequency of climate change related shocks and stresses have been increasing from time to time and vary from place to place based on the adaptive capacity and resource endowment of geographical areas (National Meteorology Agency/NMA 2007; Zhai 2009; Zhai and Zhuang 2009).
Based on this theoretical premise, we explicate how China's institutional changes altered resource endowment of firms owned by different levels of government in the next section.
Agricultural transformation is qualified as a better model only if it is centered on small-scale farmers as most of them are poor and have limited resource endowment relative to other farmers.
Good policy frameworks are key to progress, regardless of wealth or natural resource endowment.
Landholding is an indicator of the level of household resource endowment, with larger landholding indicating more household resource endowment.
The factors include: household resource endowment, land tenure and time under current management.
