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Productivity, efficiency and technical change: measuring the performance of China’s transforming agriculture

✍ Scribed by Songqing Jin; Hengyun Ma; Jikun Huang; Ruifa Hu; Scott Rozelle

Publisher
Springer
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
350 KB
Volume
33
Category
Article
ISSN
0895-562X

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