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China's economic growth, 1978-2007: structural-institutional changes and efficiency attributes

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  • Dic Lo
  • Guicai Li

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China's sustained rapid economic growth over the era of its systemic reform is of general importance for late development under globalization. This article seeks to construct an explanation of the experience, which centers on the notion of an evolving development path that embodies an uneasy mix of the attributes of allocative and productive efficiency. In this light, the analytical findings of the article give rise to two main propositions. First, in contrast to the general direction of market reform in the institutional dimension, China's actual path of industrialization and economic growth has rather tended to contradict the principle of (endowment-determined) comparative advantage. It has been in the direction of capital deepening, especially since the early 1990s. Second, China's reformed economic institutions have encompassed both market-supplanting and market-conforming elements. These are represented by state-owned enterprises and non-state-owned enterprises, respectively, with the former accounting for the improvement in productive efficiency and the latter accounting for the improvement in allocative efficiency. The article concludes with a discussion on the significance and policy implications of the findings.

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  • Dic Lo & Guicai Li, 2011. "China's economic growth, 1978-2007: structural-institutional changes and efficiency attributes," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(1), pages 59-84.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:postke:v:34:y:2011:i:1:p:59-84
    DOI: 10.2753/PKE0160-3477340103
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    1. Guo, Jiahong & Lai, Xiaoying & Lu, Chenxi & Cao, Shixiong, 2022. "What has caused China’s economic growth?," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 46(2).
    2. M.V. Melnichuk, 2018. "Analysis of the Investment Activity Regulation in Priority Sectors of the Economy: A Case Study of China," European Research Studies Journal, European Research Studies Journal, vol. 0(4), pages 783-793.
    3. Hao Qi & David M. Kotz, 2020. "The Impact of State-Owned Enterprises on China’s Economic Growth," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 52(1), pages 96-114, March.

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