A Study on Growth and Decomposition of China' s Grain TFP Growth under Enivronmental Constrains:Empirical Analysis Based on Provincical Panel Data and Sequential Malmquist- Luenberger Index
By applying directional distance function and sequential DEA, this paper uses the provincial panel data to calculate both traditional and environmental TFP growth of China' s grain,then decomposes them into technological progress and efficiency changes over the period from 1978 to 2010. The major conclusions are as follows :whether accounting the environmental factors has a significant impact on the calculation results; the contribution of traditional and environmental TFP growth are limited and their sources are technological progress individually, the effect of technical efficiency improving is relatively limited because of the lacking dynamic and continued deterioration of technical efficiency, and the cost of economic growth is high yet ; from the point in coordination degree of yield growth,resources and environment,the differences among regional TFP growth and its modes are significant,the eastern region is better than the other two, and the western region probably is in the situation of disequilibrium.