important agricultural provinces indicates a great potential for China to increase productivity through improving technical …This study applies a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach to analyze total factor productivity, technology, and … efficiency changes in Chinese agricultural production from 1984 to 1993. Twenty-nine provinces in China were classified into …

The paper extends the methodology of parametric decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index using an output … distance function. This approach addresses common methodological issues in total factor productivity estimation to produce … empirical application to Chinese agriculture shows that productivity grows at 2 percent per year on average from 1978 through …