this study compared and analyzed indigenous and modern agricultural technologies used in cassava production in anambra state. multi-stage sampling technique was used in sample selection. a total of 160 farmers were purposively selected from the four agricultural zones that made up the state based on the use of modern and indigenous technologies. data were collected using structured questionnair...

This paper mainly attempts to disclose the action mechanism of corporate digital transformation on total factor productivity (TFP). Based data listed enterprises in 2007–2019, influence TFP was analyzed empirically. The results show that can significantly promote TFP. Heterogeneity analysis reveals promoting effect only exists small and medium high-tech enterprises, suggesting transform enhance...

This study compares the sources of growth in East Asia with the rest of the world, using a methodology that allows one to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth into technical efficiency changes (catching up) and technological progress. It applies a varying coefficients frontier production function model to aggregate data for the period 1970-1990, for a sample of 45 developed and deve...

The 1990s have been a decade of minimal growth for the Japanese economy. Examining this record from a growth accounting perspective, this paper argues that a major factor underlying Japan’s disappointing growth performance in recent years has been a marked slow-down in total factor productivity (TFP) growth. It is suggested that, given present population trends and low returns on capital, any s...

The main goal of this article is to investigate the source productivity growth for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries, at industry level, based on Schumpeterian creative destruction mechanisms. Our study provides valuable insights into drivers CEE which are vital policy makers. To measure productivity, we calculate Total factor Productivity (TFP) raw labour, level. There a substantial g...

This paper empirically evaluates the relative importance of embodied versus disembodied idea flows in explaining income gaps and idea gaps. Trade is used as a measure of embodied idea flows and telephone call traffic a measure of disembodied flows. Since both trade and telephone traffic may be endogenous, this paper uses the geographic, linguistic, and colonial components of trade and telephone...

The history of economic growth measurement has been one of intimate interplay with economic theorizing, leading from improvements in the accuracy and relevance of growth data, to hypotheses on the critical sources of economic growth, to explaining deep changes in the structure of national economies. Total factor productivity (TFP), previously a measurement residual to be minimized, has since be...

Resource misallocation can lower aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We use microdata on manufacturing establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India versus the United States. We measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across plants within narrowly defined industries in China and India compared with the United States. When capit...

We reevaluate the role of human capital in determining the wealth of nations. We use standard human capital theory to estimate stocks of human capital and allow the quality of human capital to vary across countries. Our model can explain differences in schooling and earnings profiles and, consequently, estimates of Mincerian rates of return across countries. We find that effective human capital...

This paper revisits the discussion about the contribution of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth to Indonesia’s economic growth during 1971-2005. It re-estimates the contribution of TFP to economic growth during this period on the basis of new estimates of GDP, capital stock, education-adjusted employment, and factor income shares. After accounting for the growth of capital stock and educati...