in this study, total factor productivity(tfp) growth of sugar beet in iran during 1989-1990 through 2007-2008 was analyzed, using nonparametric malmquist approach. so, amounts of inputs usage including seeds, fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, labor, water use and acreage in one hand and output of sugar beet production on the hand were taken into account. results showed that sugar beet prod...

introduction: the growth of agricultural production and natural resources are from primary objectives of any political system, because this section has a vital role in providing food security. according to the production theories, production growth will come from two sources; more use of production factors within the framework of existing technologies and second, with using more advanced and mo...

background: universities play an important role in training people to meet the community demands for skilled manpower. furthermore, it is a fact known that universities do most of the research projects in iran and in most countries through out the world. it is, therefore, important to know about teaching and research productivity in universities and to determine this productivity. theoretically...

This study examines the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and total factor productivity having controlled for other channels of external openness: exports and imports in four ASEAN countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. We employ the panel data analysis PDA (fixed effect and dynamic panel models) as well as the panel cointegration and Granger causali...

To calculate partial and total productivity of production factors in broiler farms in Yazd province, 72 manufacturing units were selected based on simple random sampling method and their information and statistics were collected for one production period in the second half of 2013. To measure productivity, the Cobb-Douglas production function was estimated using classic and fuzzy regression met...

Increasing total factor productivity is the key to promoting high-quality economic development. This paper starts with land supply as an institutional source and discusses impact of regional differentiation on in China. Based panel data 273 cities China from 2003 2017, this measures (TFP) using DEA-Malmquist index, decomposes it into technical progress (TE), pure efficiency (PE) scale (SE), ana...