Zheng, Jinghai; Hu, Angang - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 4 (2006) 3, pp. 221-239
This study estimates and analyzes provincial productivity growth in China for the period 1979-2001. The Malmquist Index … approach allows us to decompose productivity growth into two components, technological progress and efficiency change …. Considerable productivity growth was found for most of the data period, but it was accomplished mainly through technological …