Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163096 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 561
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
Urbanization usually occurs with structural transformation driven by a "push" from agricultural productivity growth and a "pull" from industrial productivity growth, and usually the former exceeds the latter. This paper presents a simple model to illustrate how the open policy in the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1979 reversed the pattern such that the "pull" effect dominated the "push" effect during the PRC's structural transformation and urbanization. This model helps explain why the PRC, whose industrial productivity growth exceeds its agricultural productivity growth, has experienced a standard pattern of structural transformation. The paper also demonstrates how a developing country's business services intensity increases with its urbanization.
Subjects: 
urbanization
structural transformation
industrial productivity growth
People's Republic of China
JEL: 
L16
O14
O40
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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