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This paper aims to fill a gap in the literature on capital formation in China by estimating the capital stock in four economic sectors: business, infrastructure, government, and housing. Such a breakdown is necessary for the purpose of analysis of economic development in China, as the normal...
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Measures of society's stock of fixed assets are necessary for describing production technology, evaluating capital-output ratios and analysing multifactor productivity. While recognizing the inherent difficulty of compiling capital stock estimates for an economy in which prices have long...
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Capital estimates are widely used in economic growth and productivity studies, for profitability considerations and wealth accounting exercises. Yet the calculation of "capital" frequently receives only cursory attention, despite the challenges posed by conceptual difficulties, the complexity of...
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Investment statistics of the People's Republic of China are a source of many puzzles. Some investment data are of … dubious quality, while the particular concepts of investment and their changing definitions over time are often poorly … understood. Fixed asset investment, a remnant of the planned economy, comes with severe limitations in terms of data coverage and …
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