Food Supply Chain Analytics and Sensing Initiative

Local Regulatory Strength and Transparency in China's Food System

A screenshot from the dynamic, online visualization tool representing local transparency scores in China

In order to determine the relationship between food safety and local regulatory strength in China, our researchers have mapped the regulatory organizational structures in China to develop transparency indicators for each prefecture. Researchers created a set of wholesale market regulation indicators to measure the strength of prefecture level regulatory intent on wholesale markets. To map these indicators, we used machine learning and our mapping was based on automated text recognition algorithms applied to over 400 related government websites between 2008 and 2017.

Retsef Levi

J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management

Retsef Levi is the J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a member of the Operations Management Group at MIT Sloan and affiliated with the MIT Operations Research Center. Levi also…

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Y. Karen Zheng

George M. Bunker Associate Professor

Yanchong (Karen) Zheng is the George M. Bunker Professor and an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also the faculty leader for the Sloan-Affilated LGO degree program. Her research studies…

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Yasheng Huang

Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management

Yasheng Huang （黄亚生）@YashengHuanghttp://www.yashenghuang.com/Yasheng Huang is a Professor and holds the Epoch Foundation Professorship of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management. From 2013 to 2017, he served as an Associate…

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