Regional Productivity Growth in China's Agriculture

ISBN-13: 9780367300951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 196 str.

Shenggen Fan

Opis

This book reports regional patterns of productivity growth in Chinese agriculture and measures the separate effects of technical change and institutional reform on productivity growth. It discusses why was institutional reform initially successful in China, and not in other socialist countries?

Spis treści

List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword /Karen M. Brooks and Vernon W. Ruttan -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 - REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHINESE AGRICULTURE -- CHAPTER 3 - ESTIMATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS: A FRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION APPROACH -- CHAPTER 4 - COMPARISON OF PARTIAL PRODUCTIVITY AND TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AMONG REGIONS -- CHAPTER 5 - SOURCES OF PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES -- CHAPTER 6 - CONCLUSIONS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS -- APPENDIXES -- Bibliography -- Index.