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Models of development: A comparative study of economic growth in South Korea and Taiwan - A review
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Inflation, Financial Liberalisation and Bankruptcies in Argentina
In the mid-1970s, the Argentinian government embarked on a major programme of economic reform. The main elements of this reform programme were the liberalisation of domestic financial markets, the liberalisati...
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Some Important Issues in the Reform of China’s Planning System
A decade has passed since the reform of the economic system began in China. The decade-long reform has had universally acknowledged achievements, but at the same time has met with many difficulties and contrad...
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Factor Income Taxation in a Representative Democracy
During the past decade, economists have paid increasing attention to the political process of redistributing income. The public finance literature, led by Romer (1975), Roberts (1977), Aumann and Kurz (1977, 1...
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The Prospects for China’s Economic Development and Reform in the 1990s
In this chapter we present a number of our opinions concerning the trend in China’s economic development and the success of the reforms introduced during the 1990s.
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Measuring the productive efficiency of a group of firms
While the conventional Farrell-Färe approach to efficiency measurement can identify the most inefficient firms, it fails to consider the efficiency of a group of firms thoroughly. This paper introduces efficie...
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Financial reforms and regional investment conflicts in China: A game-theoretic analysis
In the transition from a command to a market economy, macroeconomic stabilization poses a grave problem facing the reform governments. A distinct feature of China's economic fluctuations in the post-1979 perio...
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Gender and race as factors in health care utilization
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The Increase in Land Productivity
Although in general fewer and fewer scholars still insist that total farm production did not change in early and mid-Qing Jiangnan, we get very different (and even opposite) conclusions from their research. Fo...
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Labour, Land and Climate
An allegation often made is that there was no change in the amount of cultivated land but a great increase in the agricultural labour force during the past six centuries and accordingly a growing surplus of la...
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The Rationalization of Agricultural Resource Use
The most important resources in pre-modern agriculture were land, water, the labour force and draft animals. How to utilize these resources is central to the development of agriculture. The more rational the u...
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The Externalization of Agriculture
If a region relies only on local resources and its products are only consumed locally, there are definite limits to the possibilities for expansion of production in that region. In contrast, if it can gain res...
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The Rise in Labour Productivity
Since a peasant family (or household) was the basic unit of production in agriculture and the rural economy in pre-modern Jiangnan and the major labour force in the family consists of a man and a woman, we wil...
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Overview
In the past 16 years, while many countries have been suffering economic recession or stagnation, China has experienced an economic boom of proportions rarely if ever attained in world history. As many indicato...
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Techniques
It seems to be a commonplace that Chinese agricultural technology stagnated in the Qing, especially in Jiangnan.1 But does this accord with historical reality? When we discuss the problem of technological advance...
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The Intensification of Agricultural Production
In traditional agriculture, one of the major ways to increase production is to raise production intensity, usually through increasing labour input or capital input or both per unit of cultivated land. The inte...
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Conclusion
In the winter of 1983, I went to Wuxi county in southern Jiangsu to participate in a conference on the economic history of Jiangnan during the Ming and Qing times. While there, I also took the opportunity to v...
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Testing the Neoclassical Theory of Economic Growth: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
There has been renewed empirical work recently on testing the neoclassical model of economic growth using data on various groups of countries. But none of the cross-country regressions includes China, the larg...
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Industrialisation and the Sustainability of China’s Agriculture*
The paper argues that the sustainable development of Chinese agriculture is constrained by the continuing adverse effects of the policy of industrialisation. This has resulted principally in an excessive loss ...
