Kp. Kalirajan et al., A DECOMPOSITION OF TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH - THE CASE OF CHINESE AGRICULTURAL GROWTH BEFORE AND AFTER REFORMS, American journal of agricultural economics, 78(2), 1996, pp. 331-338
Our objective in this paper is to explain a method to decompose the so
urces of total factor productivity (TEE) growth into technological pro
gress and changes in technical efficiency within the framework of the
varying coefficients frontier production function. An empirical applic
ation is demonstrated using the Chinese provincial-level agricultural
data covering the period 1970-87. The results indicate that TFP growth
in the prereform period was negative in twenty out of twenty-eight pr
ovinces and that it was positive in almost all provinces during the re
form periods, while negative in sixteen out of twenty-eight provinces
in the postreform periods of 1984-87.