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Productivity and Growth in Chinese Agriculture

  • Kali P. Kalirajan
  • Yanrui Wu
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Part of the Studies on the Chinese Economy book series (STCE)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction
    Kali P. Kalirajan, Yanrui Wu
    Pages 1-7
  3. Stochastic Frontier Production Functions and Technical Efficiency Measurements: A Review
    Kali P. Kalirajan, Ric Shand
    Pages 8-28
  4. Productivity and Growth in China: a Review
    Yanrui Wu, Hong Yang
    Pages 29-51
  5. The Impact of the Economic Reforms on Agricultural Growth
    D. T. Nguyen, Harry X. Wu
    Pages 52-99
  6. Efficiency and Technological Change: a Three-Sector Comparison
    Yanrui Wu
    Pages 100-127
  7. Explaining the Productivity Growth of China’s Rural Sector
    Xiaolu Wang, Kali P. Kalirajan
    Pages 128-144
  8. Productivity Gain from Farmer Education: Fact or Fiction?
    D. T. Nguyen, Enjiang Cheng
    Pages 145-174
  9. Has Grain Production Reached its Full Potential?
    Kali P. Kalirajan, Yiping Huang
    Pages 175-190
  10. Grain Productivity: Regional Disparity and its Causes
    Hong Yang
    Pages 191-207
  11. Do Chinese Grain Farmers Maximise their Profits?
    Kali P. Kalirajan, Yiping Huang
    Pages 208-220
  12. Food Security in China: Self-Sufficiency or International Cooperation?
    Ross Garnaut
    Pages 221-238
  13. Back Matter
    Pages 239-242
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About this book

Introduction

China's agricultural growth in the past two decades has been called a miracle. An analysis of the sources of this miraculous growth is the focus of the present volume. In addition, this book also investigates the impact of economic reforms on agriculture, the potential of grain production in China, and regional disparities in agricultural production and growth performance. This book adds to the literature and contributes to the current debates on food security and rural development.

Keywords

agriculture China grain growth reforms Rural Development

Editors and affiliations

  • Kali P. Kalirajan
    • 1
  • Yanrui Wu
    • 2
  1. 1.Australia South Asia Research CentreAustralian National UniversityCanberraAustralia
  2. 2.Department of EconomicsUniversity of Western AustraliaPerthAustralia

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