This book makes a survey of the methodologies used in previous quantitative analysis of intersectoral resource flows (IRF). Based on the discussion of the defects of much existing work, an attempt is made to improve the measurement of IRF.

Part 1 Survey: the English-language literature - construction of the statistical formula of IRF, choices of price weights, Macrae's method; the Chinese-language literature - the concept of unequal exchange, measurement of unequal exchange. Part 2 Methodology: the approach to price determination - the neoclassical approach, the sub-equilibrium approach, the concept of sub-equilibrium in multi-market analysis, normative analysis; measurement of NRIRF - measurement of NRIRF in a market economy, effects of underpricing agricultural products; measurement of NRIRF in a controlled economy. Part 3 An empirical study of the Chinese experience - survey of previous empirical studies of China - the Chinese-language literature, the English-language literature; the account of intersectoral trade - definition of the agriculture sector and the data problem, the commodity account, the service account, the financial account; estimation of NRIRF - estimation of NRIRF by the base-year method, the price system and the procurement system of agricultural products, a tentative estimation of NRIRF.