Does FDI Promote or Inhibit the High-Quality Development of Agriculture in China? An Agricultural GTFP Perspective

Yafei Wang, Li Xie, Yi Zhang, Chunyun Wang and Ke Yu
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Yafei Wang: School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China
Li Xie: School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China
Yi Zhang: School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China
Chunyun Wang: School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Ke Yu: School of Economics and Management, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing 401331, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 17, 1-19

Abstract: This paper innovatively brings the undesirable output of agricultural carbon emission into the agricultural Total Factor Productivity (TFP) accounting framework as a measure of Green Total Factor Productivity (GTFP) and uses the Slack-based Measure and Malmquist-Luenberger (SBM-ML) index method to measure the agricultural GTFP of 24 provinces in China from 2004 to 2016. Further, the two-step system generalized moment method (GMM) is adopted to reveal the effect of agricultural (Foreign Direct Investment) FDI on the growth of agricultural GTFP and various subitems. We find that the average annual growth rate of agricultural GTFP is 3.1%, and its contribution rate to agricultural growth is 52%; the growth of agricultural GTFP shows that the progress of agricultural technology is accompanied by the deterioration of agricultural technical efficiency; the agricultural GTFP in the Eastern region, the Central region and the Western region increases in a stepped-up form, with an annual growth rate of 3.1%, 3.3% and 3.4%, respectively. Agricultural FDI has a significant promoting effect on agricultural GTFP and subitems, however, it has an inverted U-shaped feature in the long term.

Keywords: agricultural FDI; green total factor productivity; Malmquist-Luenberger index method; two-step system GMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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