Policy reform and productivity change in Chinese agriculture:: A distance function approach

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bruemmer, B.; Glauben, T.; Lu, W.
• 署名单位: University of Gottingen; Zhejiang University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.04.009
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 61-79
• 关键词: productivity growth; CHINA; Policy reform; distance function

摘要

Agricultural policy reform has been an important source of change in the Chinese agricultural sector. The reforms led to productivity growth and helped China to pursue its self-sufficiency goal especially in the grain sector. In order to analyze whether observable productivity growth stems from technologically induced components or from the market induced parts, a multi-input-multi-output model is derived by using an econometric distance function framework. A decomposition allows to distinguish allocative effects, scale effects, technological change, and technical efficiency change. Data on farms in Zhejiang from 1986 to 2000 are used to analyze the impact of policy reform. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.