A Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Agricultural Growth before and after Reforms

Kalirajan, Kaliappa; Obwona, Marios; Zhao, Shirong

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“…Studies on the productivity and efficiency performance of individual industries in China have been conducted by Jefferson (1990) and Mu and Lee (2005), while Yao et al (2007) and Sun et al (1999) agreed that SFA and DEA are the more effective approach to measure the technical efficiency of industries. The SFA used in studies on the China's economy have provided useful implications on the production 3 function and technical efficiency performance (Huang and Kalirajan, 1998;Kalirajan et al, 1996;Brummer et al, 2006;Hu and McAleer, 2005;Tong, 1999;Wu 2000Wu , 2003Fu, 2005).…”

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An analysis on technical efficiency in post-reform China

Zhou¹,

2011

China Economic Review

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Abstract:This paper employs a fully nonparametric stochastic frontier model with time and individual effects to study technical efficiency in China's post-reform economy. The panel data cover China's thirty provinces for the period of 1985-2008. The empirical results show that the average output elasticity of labor is larger than the other two inputs of capital and human capital. Based on the specified inefficiency Tobit model, the factor analysis on technical efficiency shows that the time effects of technical efficiency in China's post-reform economy are significantly contingent on the factors. There exists significant regional differences in technical efficiency in China's economic development, and a number of policy implications can be drawn.

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An analysis on technical efficiency in post-reform China

Zhou¹,

2011

China Economic Review

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“…This study applies a recently developed technique, i.e., the varying coefficient production frontier approach, which isolates catching up to the frontier (technical efficiency improvement) from shifts in the frontier (technical progress) (Kalirajan, Obwona and Zhao, 1996). This approach assumes that an economy obtains its full technical efficiency by following best practice techniques, given the technology.…”

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Productivity, Efficiency and Economic Growth: East Asia and the Rest of the World

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Kalirajan²,

Singh

2004

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This study compares the sources of growth in East Asia with the rest of the world, using a methodology that allows one to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth into technical efficiency changes (catching up) and technological progress. It applies a varying coefficients frontier production function model to aggregate data for the period 1970-1990, for a sample of 45 developed and developing countries. Our results are consistent with the view that East Asian economies were not outliers in terms of TFP growth. Of the high-performing East Asian economies, our methodology identifies South Korea as having the highest TFP growth, followed by Singapore, Taiwan and Japan. Our methodology also allows us to separately estimate technical efficiency change, which is a component of TFP growth, and we find that, in general, the estimated technical efficiency of the high-performing East Asian economies was not out of line with the rest of the world.

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“…Following Kalirajan, Obwona and Zhao (1996) and Kalirajan and Shand (1997), Figure 1 illustrates the decomposition of total output growth into input growth, technical advancement and technical efficiency improvement. F1 and F2 are the frontier production functions in period 1 and 2 respectively.…”

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confidence: 99%