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  "title": "The Dynamics of Provincial Growth in China: A Nonparametric Approach",
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  "summary": "China's growth record since the start of its economic reforms in 1978 has been extraordinary. Yet, this impressive performance has been associated with an increasing regional income disparity.",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- Authors: Bulent Unel, Harm Zebregs\n- Publication date: February 1, 2006\n- Series: Working Paper No. 2006/055\n- Issue: 055\n- Pages: 24\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451863154.001\n- ISBN: 9781451863154\n- ISSN: 1018-5941\n- Core finding: China's extraordinary growth since 1978 has been associated with increasing regional income disparity. Using a recently developed nonparametric approach, the paper analyzes variation in labor productivity growth across China's provinces and decomposes labor productivity into capital deepening, efficiency gains, and technological progress."
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      "heading": "Methodology",
      "content": "- Approach: A recently developed nonparametric approach that imposes less structure on the data than the standard growth accounting framework.\n- Decomposition: Labor productivity is broken down into:\n  - capital deepening,\n  - efficiency gains,\n  - technological progress."
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      "content": "- Convergence results:\n  - No strong evidence of convergence in labor productivity across China's provinces during 1978-98.\n  - Provinces converged in efficiency levels.\n  - Provinces diverged in capital deepening and technological progress.\n- Subject areas: Capital productivity, Labor productivity, Productivity, Technological innovation, Technology.\n- Keywords: capital deepening, WP"
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    "Authors: Bulent Unel, Harm Zebregs",
    "Published: February 1, 2006",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451863154.001",
    "Authors: Bulent Unel, Harm Zebregs",
    "Publication date: February 1, 2006",
    "Series: Working Paper No. 2006/055",
    "Issue: 055",
    "Pages: 24",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451863154.001",
    "ISBN: 9781451863154",
    "ISSN: 1018-5941",
    "Core finding: China's extraordinary growth since 1978 has been associated with increasing regional income disparity. Using a recently developed nonparametric approach, the paper analyzes variation in labor productivity growth across China's provinces and decomposes labor productivity into capital deepening, efficiency gains, and technological progress.",
    "Approach: A recently developed nonparametric approach that imposes less structure on the data than the standard growth accounting framework.",
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    "Convergence results:",
    "Subject areas: Capital productivity, Labor productivity, Productivity, Technological innovation, Technology.",
    "Keywords: capital deepening, WP",
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