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 …

alternative specifications, this setting assures that social capital enhances productivity gains by playing the role of a timing … belt driving the transmission and propagation of all productivity shocks throughout society whatever the sectoral origin of …

concentration of manufacturing and services. In contrast, labor productivity has been converging across departments. Last, our study …