| Description |
1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHINESE AGRICULTURE; 2.1 Introduction: Classification of Chinese Agricultural Regions; 2. 2 Regional Characteristics of Natural Resources; 2.3 Social and Economic Conditions for Agriculture; 2. 4 Regional Characteristics of Agricultural Development; 2.5 Summary; CHAPTER 3 ESTIMATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS: A FRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION APPROACH; 3.1 Introduction |
|
3.2 Average Production Function vs. Frontier Production Function3.3 Specification of Frontier Production Function and Choice of Production Functional Forms; 3.4 Variable and Data Explanation; 3.5 Results of Estimation of Production Functions; 3.6 Comparison with Previous Estimates; CHAPTER 4 COMPARISON OF PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITY AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AMONG REGIONS; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Regional Comparison of Partial Productivity Growth; 4.3 Total Factor Productivity Growth: Measurement and Comparison; 4.4 Productivity Growth Pattern; 4.5 Summary |
|
CHAPTER 5 SOURCES OF PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES5.1 Introduction: Separation of the Effects of Technical Change and Efficiency Improvement on Productivity Growth; 5.2 Accounting for Labor Productivity Growth and Differences among Regions; 5.3 Accounting for Land Productivity Growth and Differences among Regions; 5.4 Accounting for Total Production Growth; 5.5 Sources of Technical Change and the Induced Innovation Process in Socialist Countries; 5.6 Summary; CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Major Conclusions; 6.3 Some Policy Implications |
|
APPENDIXESA Data Explanation; B Total Production Growth for Each Province; C Provincial Labor Productivity, Land Productivity and Total Factor Productivity; D Results of Production Functions with Different Specifications and Estimation Techniques; E Derivation of Likelihood Function of Frontier Production Function; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This study by Shenggen Fan makes three important and original contributions. It is the first study to report regional patterns of productivity growth in Chinese agriculture. There have been dramatic differences in output and productivity growth among Chinese regions. The second contribution is to measure the separate effects of technical change and institutional reform on productivity growth. Much of the rapid growth in agricultural production and in productivity since the late 1970s has been a consequence of an important series of institutional reforms. The third contribution is the first test of the induced innovation hypothesis against experience in a centrally planned economy. Regional patterns of productivity growth are consistent with the hypothesis that the path of technical change has been responsive to regional differences in resource endowments |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Agricultural productivity -- China -- Regional disparities
|
|
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- General.
|
|
Agricultural productivity -- Regional disparities
|
|
China
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781000237610 |
|
1000237613 |
|
9780429304248 |
|
0429304242 |
|
9781000273557 |
|
1000273555 |
|
9781000309492 |
|
1000309495 |
|
