China's economy grew by an impressive 10 percent per year over four decades. Productivity improvements within sectors … and gains from resource reallocation between sectors and ownership groups drove that expansion. However, productivity … allocation to more productive firms were associated with slower manufacturing total factor productivity growth. Earlier reforms …

This paper aims to fill a gap in the literature on capital formation in China by estimating the capital stock in four … of economic development in China, as the normal models of economic development are based on a competitive economy, which … gross domestic product in China is very poorly measured. Although the results of this analysis can only be approximate, as …

The World Bank Economic Update provides an overview of recent economic and social developments and policies in China …. Economic activity in China remains resilient, with GDP growing by 6.9 percent in 2017 and 6.8 percent year on year (yoy) in the …

This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional … consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade …, while skill intensive service sectors have had significant productivity growth. This is the inverse of the traditional …

-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for …