Sectoral interdependence in the Chinese economy in comparative perspective

The arguments for and against balanced or unbalanced growth in developing countries represent a long history. In the past several decades it has been fashionable, among economists and policymakers alike, to assume that unbalanced growth would be a major cause for growth of output and incomes in developing countries. During the 1950s and early 1960s, China followed the Soviet model of heavy industrialization, which seems to have been somewhat downplayed in the post-Mao perod, during which a shift, from heavy industry to light industry and from industry to agriculture, has been noticeable. This paper uses the input-output table for China for 1981 to examine output and employment linkages and sectoral interdependence between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. -from Authors