According to the Ahlowalia hypothesis (1995), the growth of total factor productivity (TFP) beside infrastructure investments of government lead to income inequality decrease in rural areas of countries. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of public investments such as agricultural R&E, road, education and irrigation on income inequality in rural areas of Iran. In ord...

We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to decompose output growth into input and TFP growth. For technology capital we construct two indexes reflectin...

This paper explores the forces that shaped China’s interprovincial inequality in the last five decades of communist rule. In so far as the change in interprovincial inequality is the result of differential growth in the provincial GDP per capita and provincial economic growth may be decomposed into contributions by total factor productivity and other factor inputs, a new method is introduced, b...

This paper explores the forces that shaped China’s interprovincial inequality in the last five decades of communist rule. In so far as the change in interprovincial inequality is the result of differential growth in the provincial GDP per capita and provincial economic growth may be decomposed into contributions by total factor productivity and other factor inputs, a new method is introduced, b...

DomansKa, K., T. KijeK and a. nowaK, 2014. agricultural total factor productivity change and its determinants in european Union countries. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 20: 1273-1280 The present study concerns the measurement of changes in agricultural total factor productivity in 27 european Union (eU) countries. The analysis included the years 2007--2011. The study was conducted based on malmquist pr...

abstract the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between capital stock and increasing the productivity of labor and total factor productivity (tfp) in industrial groups of khorasan razavi province from 2003 to 2007. in order to this first, the available literature in this area and the importance of productivity was reviewed, also the history of productivity in asia and the ...

This paper examines the empirical relationship between trade and total factor productivity (TFP) in South Africa. Using data on actual trade protection across different manufacturing sectors, it is shown that trade liberalization had a positive impact on TFP growth during the 1990s. In addition, time-series evidence on macro data supports a positive long-run relationship between TFP and opennes...

The financial crisis of 2008 was followed by sharp contractions in aggregate output and employment and an unusual increase in aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). This paper attempts to explain these facts by modeling the creation and destruction of jobs in the presence of heterogeneity in firm productivity and frictional credit and labor markets. The aggregate level of TFP is determined ...

The paper analyzes how social barriers to communication affect economy-wide productivity and factor accumulation. Using a dynamic model of an economy that includes a reproducible capital stock (physical or human) and effective labor, a negative relationship is shown to exist between social barriers to communication and total factor productivity (TFP), per capita consumption and reproducible cap...

Departing from the expansionary austerity literature, this study assesses empirically whether fiscal consolidation propagates changes in supply side of economy that can potentially influence total factor productivity (TFP). Using a panel dataset 26 OECD countries over period 1980–2016 and employing vector autoregressive cointegration techniques, we present evidence both short-run long-run negat...