[PDF] Changes In Production Efficiency In China eBook

Author : Shenggen Fan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000237613

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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.

Author : Bing Xu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461477204

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Evaluating Production Efficiency in China examines production from engineering and statistics perspectives rather than from economics and mathematics perspectives. The authors present an observable benchmark as the criterion of the production efficiency to replace the unobservable production frontier surface. This book discusses several different computing technologies, controllable variable as a path of identification, changes in production efficiency by decision making on specific operating conditions, and optimal resource allocation. The book provides a channel to tap inside the success stories of China, exploiting the way of changes in production efficiency during China’s development in the past 30 years. This book examines the concepts and realization of production efficiencies across all areas of the economy. Also the book provides the perspective of foreign direct investment (FDI) absorption to identify how Chinese economy changes in production efficiency.

Author : Shujie Yao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1349235539

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This book explains how policy changes affect farmers' production incentives and efficiency of resource allocation within and outside agriculture in modern China, paying particular attention to the effects of technical inputs on yield and efficiency of spatial crop production pattern. Drawing experiences of agricultural development in different periods after independence and employing two different quantitative techniques, it concludes that government's long term tendency to undermine the role of agriculture, lack of state investment and the inconsistency of market reforms are three major threats to sustained grain production and agricultural growth in China.

Author : Wenqiang Bao
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic dissertations
ISBN :

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This dissertation studies the production efficiency and productivity of agriculture in Shanxi province after Chinese economic reforms. The main question about the economic aspects of agriculture we want to address is the performance of Chinese agriculture since 1980. We use a newly constructed county-level input and output quantity data set to obtain technical efficiency and measure the Malmquist productivity index and its components. We first use the nonparametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to obtain Pareto-Koopmans measures of technical efficiency of individual counties in Shanxi province during year 1981-2010 in a multi-output, multi-input production framework. We disaggregate overall efficiency into two components representing output and input efficiencies and evaluate the contribution of individual outputs and inputs to the measured level of overall efficiency. We also examine the utilization of modern agricultural inputs compared to the traditional inputs. Next, We investigate the temporal and spatial nature of productivity growth of Chinese agriculture in Shanxi province. The results indicate that growth in the Malmquist productivity index over the 1983–2010 periods was 1.2% annually for the entire province. Decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index shows that technical change contributed to the growth in productivity by 0.8% per year, while efficiency change increased productivity by 0.4% per year. The results also show that the Malmquist index of productivity changes is fast-, moderate- and slow-growing in different groups. The trend of the growth of productivity is also explained in this dissertation. Finally, across county variation in the DEA measure of efficiency and its components is investigated. We identify a number of important factors and discuss their relevance as determinants of efficiency in agricultural production in Shanxi province. We also evaluate the impact of three important policy changes (named, China’s admission to WTO (2001), abolition of agricultural tax (2006), and subsidization of agricultural machinery (2007)) on agricultural efficiency at both national and county level. An analysis of the measured efficiency level can help to identify factors that enhance or hinder efficient resource utilization. This becomes helpful for public policy for improving efficiency.

Author : Ligang Song
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1760460354

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China’s change to a new model of growth, now called the ‘new normal’, was always going to be hard. Events over the past year show how hard it is. The attempts to moderate the extremes of high investment and low consumption, the correction of overcapacity in the heavy industries that were the mainstays of the old model of growth, the hauling in of the immense debt hangover from the fiscal and monetary expansion that pulled China out of the Great Crash of 2008 would all have been hard at any time. They are harder when changes in economic policy and structure coincide with stagnation in global trade and rising protectionist sentiment in developed countries, extraordinarily rapid demographic change and recognition of the urgency of easing the environmental damage from the old model. China’s economy has slowed and there are worries that the authorities will not be able to contain the slowdown within preferred limits. This year’s Update explores the challenge of the slowdown in growth and the change in economic structure. Leading experts on China’s economy and environment review change within China’s new model of growth, and its interaction with ageing, environmental pressure, new patterns of urbanisation, and debt problems at different levels of government. It illuminates some new developments in China’s economy, including the transformational potential of internet banking, and the dynamics of financial market instability. China’s economic development since 1978 is full of exciting change, and this year’s China Update is again the way to know it as it is happening.

Author : Ligang Song
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1921536039

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China's Dilemma - Economic Growth, the Environment and Climate Change examines the challenges China will have to confront in order to maintain rapid growth while coping with the global financial turbulence, some rising socially destabilising tensions such as income inequality, an over-exploited environment and the long-term pressures of global warming. China's Dilemma discusses key questions that will have an impact on China's growth path and offers some in-depth analyses as to how China could confront these challenges. The authors address the effect of the global credit crunch and financial shocks on China's economic growth; China's contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and emissions reduction schemes; the environmental consequences of foreign direct investment in China; the relationship between air pollution and mortality; the effect of climate change on agricultural output; the coal industry's compliance with tougher regulations; and the constraints water shortages may impose on China's economy. It also emphasises the importance of managing the rising demand for energy to moderate oil price increases and placating domestic and international concerns about global warming. In the thirty years since China started on the path of reform, it has emerged as one of the largest and most dynamic economies in the world. This carries with it the responsibility to balance the requirements of key industries that are driving its development with the need to ensure that its growth is both equitable and sustainable. China's Dilemma highlights key lessons learned from the past thirty years of reform in order to pave the way for balanced and sustained growth in the future.