Productivity, efficiency and technical change: measuring the performance of China’s transforming agriculture

Deininger, Klaus; Ma, Hengyun; Huang, Jikun; Hu, Ruizhong; Rozelle, Scott

doi:10.1007/s11123-009-0145-7

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“…Most of agriculture's growth in total factor productivity after between 1998 and 2007. Most of agriculture's growth in total factor productivity after 1990 came from technological progress ( Jin, Ma, Huang, Hu, and Rozelle 2010). 1990 came from technological progress ( Jin, Ma, Huang, Hu, and Rozelle 2010).…”

Section: Productivity Growth In Agriculture and Structural Transformamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most of agriculture's growth in total factor productivity after 1990 came from technological progress ( Jin, Ma, Huang, Hu, and Rozelle 2010). 1990 came from technological progress ( Jin, Ma, Huang, Hu, and Rozelle 2010). How did productivity growth in agriculture contribute to the overall economic How did productivity growth in agriculture contribute to the overall economic growth in China?…”

Section: Productivity Growth In Agriculture and Structural Transformamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding China's Growth: Past, Present, and Future

Zhu

2012

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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The pace and scale of China's economic transformation have no historical precedent. In 1978, China was one of the poorest countries in the world. The real per capita GDP in China was only one-fortieth of the U.S. level and one-tenth the Brazilian level. Since then, China's real per capita GDP has grown at an average rate exceeding 8 percent per year. As a result, China's real per capita GDP is now almost one-fifth the U.S. level and at the same level as Brazil. This rapid and sustained improvement in average living standard has occurred in a country with more than 20 percent of the world's population so that China is now the second-largest economy in the world. I will begin by discussing briefly China's historical growth performance from 1800 to 1950. I then present growth accounting results for the period from 1952 to 1978 and the period since 1978, decomposing the sources of growth into capital deepening, labor deepening, and productivity growth. But the main focus of this paper will be to examine the sources of growth since 1978, the year when China started economic reform. Perhaps surprisingly, given China's well-documented sky-high rates of saving and investment, I will argue that China's rapid growth over the last three decades has been driven by productivity growth rather than by capital investment. I also examine the contributions of sector-level productivity growth, and of resource reallocation across sectors and across firms within a sector, to aggregate productivity growth. Overall, gradual and persistent institutional change and policy reforms that have reduced distortions and improved economic incentives are the main reasons for the productivity growth.

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Section: Productivity Growth In Agriculture and Structural Transformamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Productivity Growth In Agriculture and Structural Transformamentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding China's Growth: Past, Present, and Future

Zhu

2012

Journal of Economic Perspectives

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“…Rising grain productivity has enabled the country to gradually release its limited land and water resources for cash crop and livestock production. While the grain sector recorded high TFP growth, annual TFP growth rates for cash crops and livestock were even higher, exceeding 3.5 per cent in the period 1995-2005 (Jin et al 2010). Since the mid-1990s, China's agricultural productivity growth has also relied on innovation from plant biotechnology.…”

Section: Technology Changesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Chinese scientists developed hybrid rice in the late 1970s. Technological changes in wheat, maize, cash crops and animal production have also been impressive since the 1990s (Jin et al 2010). Empirical studies show the average annual growth rate of TFP in the grain sector increased about 3 per cent before the mid-2000s (Fan 1991;Fan and Zhang 2002;Jin et al 2008).…”

Section: Technology Changesmentioning

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China’s 40 years of agricultural development and reform

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China’s 40 Years of Reform and Development: 1978–2018

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“…Marginal revenue of land and total factor productivity (TFP) are widely cited as the indexes to investigate changes in agricultural production (Lin, 1992;Tian and Wang, 2000;Deng et al, 2010a;Jin et al, 2010). Marginal product of land, which measures contribution to agricultural output from land, can be treated as shadow value of land.…”

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Marginal revenue of land and total factor productivity in Chinese agriculture: Evidence from spatial analysis

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This paper attempts to explore the temporal and spatial nature of the marginal revenue of land, total factor productivity (TFP) change and its three components: technical change (TC), technical efficiency change (TEC) and scale efficiency change (SEC) as seen in Chinese agricultural production from 1995 to 1999. Based on county-level data, the study utilized both stochastic frontier and mapping analyses methods. The results show that growth in the marginal revenue of land was diverse across various regions, where most gain occurred in eastern coastal zone, while loss was in Northwest and North China. China has experienced moderate decreases in annual TFP change (-0.26%) with considerable regional variations. Specifically, the administrative intervention in grain production and the deterioration of the agricultural technology diffusion system led to a moderate drop in annual TFP change. County-level mapping analyses took into account interregional variances in TFP and its components. Regarding components of TFP, TEC differences explain the majority of regional dispersions in TFP. As developed areas in China, the Huang-Huai-Hai region and the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan economic zone face the challenges of land conversion and grain security amidst the process of urbanization.

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Productivity, efficiency and technical change: measuring the performance of China’s transforming agriculture

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Cited by 123 publications

References 33 publications

Understanding China's Growth: Past, Present, and Future

Understanding China's Growth: Past, Present, and Future

China’s 40 years of agricultural development and reform

Marginal revenue of land and total factor productivity in Chinese agriculture: Evidence from spatial analysis

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