international productivity level : comparison with China, Korea, Taiwan and the United States. … comparative studies analyze macro-level productivity. In this book, the productivity performance of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan …1. Introduction -- 2. Investigating productivity slowdown in the 1990s by using the KLEM database in Japan -- 3. The …

the region. Dr Timmer describes the manufacturing performance of five Asian countries since the 1960s: China, India … comparison with the world productivity leader, the USA. The author uses new empirical data to assess the degree of structural … change in the manufacturing sector and its importance for productivity growth. He then discusses conditions for economic …

factor productivity (TFP) growth and aims to identify the sources of output growth in these East Asian economies. Chia …

impact of industry on sustainable development. In this original and insightful book, national experts from Chile, China, the …

Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, reform of its science and technology system has deepened. This book … clusters, the R&D activities of multinational corporations operating in China, and the prospect of commercialization of high … that although high-tech exports have become an important contributing factor to China's economic growth, the country still …

, economic growth in China must transform from an inputs-driven pattern, to a productivity-driven pattern. Academics, researchers … inequality -- 11. Labor market institutions and social protections -- 12. Reaping China's reform dividends. …China has grown rapidly since the reform initiation of the 1970s. China's Economic Growth Prospects narrates the …