This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

productivity and efficiency. Traditional growth theories focus on the first factor where in developing countries, and especially … in the productivity and efficiency and use of the excess capacity has focused. Therefore, the efficiency analysis of …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

for each 4-digit SIC code. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2008) definition of aggregate productivity growth …