productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production … practices and improved productivity. Technical innovations that helped improved rice productivity include irrigation, pest …

In this paper, we conduct a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of the household saving rate in China using a … life cycle model and panel data on Chinese provinces for the 1995-2004 period from China's household survey. We find that … China's household saving rate has been high and rising and that the main determinants of variations over time and over space …

affected the productivity and welfare of wheat farmers in China for a dataset that covers all the major rural reforms …Following the rural reform in 1978 a series of agricultural reforms were introduced in China. The main aim of these … undertaken in China. We find that the nineties' price reforms resulted in a high magnitude of effort-response from wheat farmers …

of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital … and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a unique balanced panel of 681 … show that exposure to deep reform have lead to higher productivity realisations while remaining under state ownership. …

China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of … quantifying their contributions to growth. In this paper, we develop a three-sector dynamic model to quantify the sources of China … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …

world markets, despite China being an oil importing country. In this paper we develop a theoretical model that explains the … oil prices that has a stronger impact on its export competitors. This is due to the large labor force surplus of China. We … export competitiveness, together with the oil price, productivity, real exchange rate, and foreign industrial production over …

resources, which raises productivity. Relying on provincial panel data from China, this paper attempts to examine if regional … productivity growth is accounted for by the deepening process of financial development. Towards this end, an appropriate … measurement of financial depth is constructed and then included as a determinant of productivity growth. It finds that a …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China and a sample of city commercial, banks for … the eleven years to 2007. Estimates of total factor productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence … alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state-owned commercial banks (SOCBs) is compared with the joint …

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a … bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals … for the robustness of the results by examining alternative sets of outputs. The productivity growth of the state …