财政支农支出绩效的区域差异:测算与分解

Measurement and Decomposition of Regional Differences in Performance of Fiscal Expenditure on Agriculture

运用我国2007—2014年省域的面板数据,从财政支农支出的绝对规模和相对规模两个方面,分析了我国财政支农支出的区域差异,并通过构建包含经济效益和社会效益在内的指标体系,对各省财政支农绩效进行了实证分析。结果表明:我国财政支农绩效的区域差异显著。具体分解来看,综合效率和纯技术效率都表现为东高西低,规模效率则表现为中高西低,大部分省域的支农支出已接近最优规模,但在西部某些省份,仍存在规模不足的现象。纯技术效率偏低是影响我国财政支农绩效提升的主要因素。因此,要提高我国财政支农支出的绩效,重点应放在提高资金管理效率,而不仅仅是扩大投入规模。

Using provincial panel data of China from 2007 to 2014,this paper studies the regional differences of fiscal expenditure on agriculture from two perspectives of both absolute and relative scales. Then it carries out an empirical analysis of the performance of fiscal expenditure on agriculture in each province by constructing an index system which includes both economic benefits and social efficiency. The results show that on one hand,there are distinct differences in performance among different regions. The characteristic of pure technical efficiency and comprehensive efficiency is descending gradually from the east to west. The scale efficiency is the highest in the middle region,while being the lowest in the western region. The scales of fiscal expenditure on agriculture are near optimization in most provinces,but are inadequate in some western provinces. On the other hand,the low efficiency of pure technology is the main reason for the low performance. Therefore,the focus of improving China＇s fiscal expenditure performance should be enhancing management efficiency rather than expanding investment.