Recognizing the critical role of agricultural sector in the overall growth as well as development performance, this study estimates total factor productivity (TFP) in Indian agriculture at state-level. Using Index of Agricultural Production as the measure of output, changes in TFP are estimated using non-parametric Sequential Malmquist TFP index. The TFP change is decomposed into efficiency cha...

Many studies have been conducted on the relationship between education as an indicator of human capital and economic growth in our country. However, there have been a few studies regarding the simultaneous impact of health capital and education indicators on the economic growth of the provinces up to now. In this regard, the present study examined the impact of human health indicators and educa...

We begin the development of a theory of total factor productivity (TFP) by presenting a multi-sector model of general purpose technology (GPT) driven growth, which generates numerical data via simulation and confirm the theoretical predictions of Carlaw and Lipsey (2003) and Lispey and Carlaw (2004) that TFP is not a contemporaneous measure of technological change. The modeling framework enable...

The impact of international trade and export-oriented policies on economic growth has been an important topic. Based evaluation China’s Belt Road Initiative (BRI), this study provides new evidence the positive causal link between increasing openness long-term growth. Specifically, evaluates BRI’s 18 key provinces in China, with a focus total factor productivity (TFP). Utilizing panel dataset 28...

We analyze regional contributions to changes in China’s maize productivity over the period 2005–2015. National total factor (TFP) for industry is calculated using share of each province’s production as weights. then decompose national TFP this into provincial contributions. Our results show that Jilin, which largest producer among all major provinces, has made a negative contribution change pro...

Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as other exogenous (e...

the main objective of this study is to investigate the production factors productivity in large manufacturing sub-sectors. for this purpose, using statistical data for period 1972-2004, we have tried to study and analyze the trend and level of production factors productivity (partial and total productivity) in each sub-sectors classified according to isic two digits code. the average and margin...

the aim of this paper is to analyze total factor productivity (tfp) growth and its components in asian countries applying stochastic frontier analysis (sfa) to the time series data of 44 asian countries from 2000 to 2010. using battese and coelli approach, tfp is divided into technical efficiency change and technical change. tfp decomposition using sfa method for the years 1998 to 2007 indicate...