Title: Decomposition of Productivity and Transition of Economic Convergence in China
Abstract: The regional Malmquist indexes were measured by adopting the DEA approach based on the panel data of 27 provinces in China(1995-2009),and the regional economic convergence was also empirically analyzed by using the nonparametric local linear regression method.The results showed that China is still at the stage of extensive economic growth,whose technological content is low.Its economic growth is promoted mainly by the increase of element inputs rather than technological advances.The West Development Strategy has significantly increased the efficiency of the western provinces;however,their efficiency level is still lower than that of the eastern provinces.There exists a club convergence in the regional efficiency between 1995 and 2009,and the convergence has also taken on several obvious stages.The regional efficiency gap widened during the ninth five-year plan period and the regional efficiency took on β convergence during the tenth five-year plan period,but the convergence was not significant during the eleventh five-year plan period.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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