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Technological change, technical and allocative efficiency in Chinese agriculture: the case of rice production in Jiangsu

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 140 KB
Volume: 12
Category: Article
ISSN: 0954-1748
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1328(200001)12:1<1::aid-jid565>3.0.co;2-u

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✦ Synopsis

This paper develops a frontier shadow cost function approach to estimate empirically the eects of technological change, technical and allocative eciency improvement in Chinese agriculture during the reform period (1980±93). The results reveal that the ®rst phase rural reforms (1979±84) which focused on the decentralization of the production system have had signi®cant impact on technical eciency but not allocative eciency. However, during the second phase reforms which was supposed to focus on the liberalization of rural markets, technical eciency improved very little and allocative eciency has increased only slightly.