Did Agricultural Technological Changes Affect China¡¯s Regional Disparity?

Xiaoyun Liu (), Xiuqing Wang, Xuefeng Mao, Wanchun Luo and Xian Xin

No 803, Working Papers from China Agricultural University, College of Economics and Management

Abstract: China¡¯s agricultural sector has developed very rapidly in the past 30 years and agricultural technological progress is deemed as one of the most substantial factors leading to China¡¯s rapid agricultural GDP growth. In this paper we assess the impacts of agricultural technological changed on regional disparity with a general equilibrium model of multiple regions and multiple sectors. Our results suggest that agricultural technological changes significantly reduced China¡¯s agricultural regional disparity and accounted for 40% reduction of agricultural regional disparity in terms of agricultural GDP per capita. Agricultual technological changes, however, led to an increase of China¡¯s overall regional disparity and accounted for 6% increase of China¡¯s overall regional disparity in terms per capita GDP.

Keywords: Agricultural technological change; Regional disparity; General equilibrium model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C67 O18 O33 Q16 R13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2008-11
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