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Technological change, technical and allocative efficiency in Chinese agriculture: the case of rice production in Jiangsu
Author(s) -
Fan Shenggen
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1328(200001)12:1<1::aid-jid565>3.0.co;2-u
Subject(s) - allocative efficiency , economics , agriculture , production (economics) , production function , technological change , shadow price , technical change , liberalization , decentralization , production–possibility frontier , china , productive efficiency , agricultural economics , productivity , microeconomics , market economy , economic growth , macroeconomics , mathematics , ecology , mathematical optimization , political science , law , biology
This paper develops a frontier shadow cost function approach to estimate empirically the effects of technological change, technical and allocative efficiency improvement in Chinese agriculture during the reform period (1980–93). The results reveal that the first phase rural reforms (1979–84) which focused on the decentralization of the production system have had significant impact on technical efficiency but not allocative efficiency. However, during the second phase reforms which was supposed to focus on the liberalization of rural markets, technical efficiency improved very little and allocative efficiency has increased only slightly. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.