RIETI/G-COE Hi-Stat International Workshop on
Establishing Industrial Productivity Databases for China(CIP), India (IIP), Japan (JIP) and Korea (KIP)
October 22, 2010, Tokyo(Preliminary)
Understanding the growth and productivity performance of large emerging economies
such as China and India is very important to the rest of the world. Yet, methodologicaland institutional problems have been a major obstacle to the construction of proper
productivity measures for these economies that are in line with the international
standards. Based on the experiences of more advanced economies in developing
internationally compatible database, such as Japan and Korea, RIETI and Hitotsubashi
University have just jointly initiated an ambitious project to construct China Industrial
Productivity Database (CIP), involving leading academics in this field and senior
official statisticians. This international workshop marks an important start of the CIP
project and the first of a series of international events in the coming years fordeveloping the CIP and analyzing the Chinese industry level productivity performanceas well as for international comparisons between China and other economies.
This workshop is also part of a global effort of constructing and integrating national
statistics for the world productivity analysis under the World KLEMS Program, which
promotes the Asian KLEMS in particular. The organizers are pleased to have invited agroup of Indian researchers who have been working on the Indian KLEMS to share
their experience in solving data problems. Together with experts from Europe, Japanand Korea, this workshop is expect to be one successfully promoting productivity
studies in China, India, Japan and Korea.

Chaired by Kyoji Fukao (Hitotsubashi University)
09:45-10:00

Opening Address by Masayuki Morikawa (RIETI) andHarry Wu (Hitotsubashi University)

10:00-10:40

Marcel Timmer (GGDC, Groningen University) on the WorldKLEMS: Progresses and Challenges

10:40-11:20

Harry Wu on Productivity Performance of Chinese Industries

11:20-11:40

Coffee Break1

Chaired by Tsutomu Miyagawa (Gakushuin University)
11:40-12:20

Yue Ma (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) on Measuring
Chinese Firms’ Performance – Experiences with Chinese firmlevel data

12:20-13:00

Yang Wu (NBS), Jianchun Yang (NBS), and Harry Wu on
Data Challenges in CIP

13:00-14:00

Lunch

Chaired by Harry Wu (Hitotsubashi University)
14:00-14:40

Hak Kil Pyo (Seoul National University), Hyunbae Chun(Sogang University) and Keun Hee Rhee (Korea ProductivityCenter), "The Productivity Performance in Korean Industries(1990-2009): Estimates from KIP Database"

14:40-15:20

Tsutomu Miyagawa (Gakushuin University) and Kyoji Fukao(Hitotsubashi University) on the JIP project (estimation ofintangible assets and introduction of manuals and datacompilation programs)

15:20-15:40

Coffee Break

Chaired by Hak Kil Pyo (Seoul National University)
15:40-16:20

Suresh Aggarwal (Delhi University) on measuring labor input
in Indian KLEMS

16:20-17:00

Deb Kusum Das (ICRIER, India) on measuring capital input
in Indian KLEMS

17:00-17:30

Marcel Timmer on the World Input-Output Database Projectand the Experience of the EU KLEMS

17:30-18:30

Discussions: 1) Gaaitzen de Vries (GGDC) on handling IOT
problems; 2) Harry Wu on CIP-TCB-NBS collaboration inChina KLEMS; 3) Kyoji Fukao on ideas of Asian KLEMS
the analytical use of the KLEMS data

19:00

Reception2