Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its … financial market to foreign competition by 2006. Efficiency is key for domestic banks to survive in a liberalised environment …, but it appears that the last hope for raising bank efficiency is through ownership reform. Whether ownership reform and …

study also found that the potential for further enhancing growth through technical efficiency in China is considerable … technical efficiency in the growth accounting framework, and then identifying a series of reform programmes, such as … institutional innovation which facilitate the improvement of technical efficiency and through which economic growth. These …

disaggregated data. We include control variables as determinants of matching efficiency and regional disparities. We confirm that …

This study shows that China.s post-1949 state-led industrialization has closely followed an underlying path that began … which is evidenced by a newly constructed dataset. Reform measures can only temporarily improve efficiency performance, but …

This paper examines the efficiency of public sector expenditures at achieving social sector outcomes in small island … developing states (SIDS). Public sector efficiency is estimated using a stochastic production function (SPF) approach and panel … data since 1990. A second stage of the analysis examines the determinants of efficiency. Results indicate that the …