Role of TFP in China's Growth *
This paper uses the dual approach to growth accounting to examine the role of total factor productivity (TFP) in recent Chinese growth. Most previous growth accounting studies on China have followed the primal approach, which depends heavily on the national income accounts. Unfortunately, despite efforts to rectify them, Chinese national income accounts data continue to have problems that affect primal approach growth accounting results. The dual approach, in contrast, allows independent price information to play a role. Recent research has focused on the following two questions: (i) How significant has TFP's role been in post-reform Chinese growth? (ii) Has TFP growth rate slowed down in more recent years? This paper finds that: (i) the TFP growth rate for mainland China computed using the dual approach also proves high; and (ii) there has been some slowdown in TFP growth rate in recent years. Copyright 2006 East Asian Economic Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd..
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2006
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Authors: | Islam, Nazrul ; Dai, Erbiao ; Sakamoto, Hiroshi |
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Asian Economic Journal. - East Asian Economic Association - EAEA. - Vol. 20.2006, 2, p. 127-159
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East Asian Economic Association - EAEA |
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