An Emerging Knowledge-Based Economy in China?: Indicators from OECD Databases

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An Emerging Knowledge-Based Economy in China?: Indicators from OECD Databases

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Chiara Criscuolo
Ralf Martin

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This paper shows that China is catching up rapidly with other dynamic Asian economies and the Triad economies on a score of indicators relating to the knowledge-based economy. Taking into account that a number of measurement issues hamper international comparability to varying degrees, some of the main results are the following. • Economic growth in China has outpaced the other economies substantially. Nevertheless, GDP per capita is still considerably smaller than that of the other economies. • The main contributor to GDP in China is industry (mining; manufacturing; electricity, gas and water supply; and construction), which saw its share rise by 10 percentage points to 52% between 1990 and 2002. • Trade in goods as a percentage of GDP doubled between 1990 and 2002, reaching a level well above that of the Triad economies. The largest contribution to this expansion was made by...

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Paper provided by OECD, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry in its series OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers with number 2004/4.

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NEP-ALL-2005-08-13 (All new papers)
NEP-INO-2005-08-13 (Innovation)
NEP-SEA-2005-08-13 (South East Asia)
NEP-TRA-2005-08-13 (Transition Economics)

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