Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and China economic growth

As a growing developing economy, China impressed the world by its astonishing growth rate and fast structural transformation. Mean-while, the openness also increased a lot after China adopted the reform and opening up policy in 1978. This paper first constructs real GDP, capital and labor series in...

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Other Authors: Chen, Xilu , active 2015 (author.)
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spelling ndltd-cuhk.edu.hk-oai-cuhk-dr-cuhk_12915082019-02-19T03:31:46Z Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and China economic growth CUHK electronic theses & dissertations collection Agricultural productivity Agricultural productivity--China Economic conditions HD2097 .C396 2015 As a growing developing economy, China impressed the world by its astonishing growth rate and fast structural transformation. Mean-while, the openness also increased a lot after China adopted the reform and opening up policy in 1978. This paper first constructs real GDP, capital and labor series in China from 1952 to 2012 following instructions by some scholars, and then uses the simple growth accounting method to show that the agricultural productivity growth plays an important role in structural transformation: higher agricultural productivity growth accompanies with further structural transformation, or, lower agricultural employment share. And the role does not change much when the openness of China becomes higher, inconsistent from the outcome of Matsuyama (1992) at a first glance. 作為一個在成長的發展中國家,中國驚人的增長率和快速的結構轉型給世界留下了深刻的印象。同時,在中國1978 年實行改革開放的政策後,中國的開放程度也大大增加。本文根據一些學者提供的思路構建了中國1952 至2012 年的實際GDP、勞動力及資本的時間序列,然後用簡單增長核算方法展示了農業的生產率增長在結構轉型方面的重要角色:更高的農業相對生產率增長會伴隨更深的結構轉型。當中國的開放程度變高時,這種角色沒有太多改變。初步地看,這和Matsuyama (1992)文中的描述並不一致。 Chen, Xilu. Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-87). Abstracts also in Chinese. Title from PDF title page (viewed on 11, October, 2016). Detailed summary in vernacular field only. Chen, Xilu , active 2015 (author.) Yip, Chong K. (thesis advisor.) Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Economics. (degree granting institution.) 2015 Text bibliography text electronic resource electronic resource remote 1 online resource (2, viii, 87 leaves) : illustrations (some color) computer online resource cuhk:1291508 local: etd920160091 local: 991018537599703407 local: EM160504162324_7 eng chi China China 1949- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/islandora/object/cuhk%3A1291508/datastream/TN/view/Agricultural%20productivity%2C%20comparative%20advantage%2C%20and%20China%20economic%20growth.jpghttp://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1291508
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topic Agricultural productivity
Agricultural productivity--China
Economic conditions
HD2097 .C396 2015
spellingShingle Agricultural productivity
Agricultural productivity--China
Economic conditions
HD2097 .C396 2015
Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and China economic growth
description As a growing developing economy, China impressed the world by its astonishing growth rate and fast structural transformation. Mean-while, the openness also increased a lot after China adopted the reform and opening up policy in 1978. This paper first constructs real GDP, capital and labor series in China from 1952 to 2012 following instructions by some scholars, and then uses the simple growth accounting method to show that the agricultural productivity growth plays an important role in structural transformation: higher agricultural productivity growth accompanies with further structural transformation, or, lower agricultural employment share. And the role does not change much when the openness of China becomes higher, inconsistent from the outcome of Matsuyama (1992) at a first glance. === 作為一個在成長的發展中國家,中國驚人的增長率和快速的結構轉型給世界留下了深刻的印象。同時,在中國1978 年實行改革開放的政策後,中國的開放程度也大大增加。本文根據一些學者提供的思路構建了中國1952 至2012 年的實際GDP、勞動力及資本的時間序列,然後用簡單增長核算方法展示了農業的生產率增長在結構轉型方面的重要角色:更高的農業相對生產率增長會伴隨更深的結構轉型。當中國的開放程度變高時,這種角色沒有太多改變。初步地看,這和Matsuyama (1992)文中的描述並不一致。 === Chen, Xilu. === Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-87). === Abstracts also in Chinese. === Title from PDF title page (viewed on 11, October, 2016). === Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
author2 Chen, Xilu , active 2015 (author.)
author_facet Chen, Xilu , active 2015 (author.)
title Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and China economic growth
title_short Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and China economic growth
title_full Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and China economic growth
title_fullStr Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and China economic growth
title_full_unstemmed Agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and China economic growth
title_sort agricultural productivity, comparative advantage, and china economic growth
publishDate 2015
url http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1291508
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