CONTENTS
I. Introduction
II. Analyzing Productivity in Reform China
III. Rice Technology in China
IV. A General Framework of Endogenous Technology and Productivity Growth
V. Results
ABSTRACT
The overall goal of our paper is to create a framework for studying the
impact of national investment into research and extension in China and to
measure the impact that such investments have had on creating
productivity-increasing technology. Our purpose is to provide more convincing
measures of the impacts of crop-specific investment in national research
programs and the import of materials from the CG system. Specifically, we
use a new measure of seed technology to track the changes in the quantity and
quality of genetic resources in China's major rice producing provinces from 1982
to 1995. We find that new technology has provided almost all of the growth
of China's TFP of rice. The International Rice Research Institute has supplied
an important part of China's rice germplasm and positively contributed to the
health of China's rice sector.
