-based simulations are then proposed in order to assess productivity gains which would occur if firms had the opportunity to evolve in …

In the rural health-care organization of China, township hospitals ensure the delivery of basic medical services … also that in the context of China, the efficiency of township hospitals is influenced by unobservable factors. …

in a village of southwest China. By exploring a panel structure survey data collected in the village, we identify the …

them and other workers. After showing how land constraints and the productivity dynamics outside agriculture might prevent …This paper questions the Lewis Path perspective of a "world without agriculture" which underpins the "structural …

the huge need of increasing the productivity in this sector. If increase in agriculture productivity requires both an …. After a long time of disinterest in the agriculture sector in Africa, several voices arise now in favour of greater efforts … towards this sector. Several studies tend to show the crucial role of agriculture in African countries' growth and highlight …

the evolution of two different forms of productivity (the productivity of labour and total factor productivity … theoretical underpinnings for most debates on the origins of the particular economic growth and productivity gains that have taken …

China is a big country in terms of biotech achievements. It is also a rare country demonstrating crop …

This article investigates the impact that the appreciation and the stability of the real exchange rate in China between … 1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese …

that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and …