Productivity, efficiency and technical change: Measuring the performance of China's transforming agriculture

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 191-207

  Jin, Songqing ^a   Ma, Hengyun ^b   Huang, Jikun ^c   Hu, Ruifa ^c   Rozelle, Scott ^d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China's transforming agriculture; Efficiency; Productivity; Technical change

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952426986     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-009-0145-7     Document Type: Article

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