China Development Bank

Reducing antibiotics? experimental evidence from poultry farmers in China

Antibiotic overuse in the livestock sector has negative environmental implications and leads to bacterial resistance. We set up a randomized controlled trial in two locations in China among poultry farmers to evaluate the effects of a two-pronged approach: Providing micro- subsid...

Weak or Strong Porter Effect? County-Level Evidence from China’s Prohibited Breeding Zone Policy in the Yangtze River Basin

The extent to which environmental regulation yields a “weak” or “strong” Porter effect is fundamentally shaped by the trade-off between industrial output and productivity improvements, a complex dynamic that requires granular, sub-national empirical evidence. This study employs a...