so the ability of the chinese growth pattern to generate more productive and remunerative employment outside agriculture played an important role in addition per worker output in agriculture increased dramatically from the early s reflecting the institutional changes described earlier what is significant is that it continued to increase at a rapid rate thereafter such that it nearly doubled in the decade after the growth was broadbased and widely shared because of the egalitarian land distribution as well as the simultaneous creation of nonagricultural employment opportunities they found that government expenditure on education had the largest impact on reducing both rural poverty and regional inequality and a significant impact on boosting production