This paper analyzes productivity levels, dispersion and growth in the Bolivian Manufacturing Sector during the Market … promote economic growth with fairness. We show that in contrast to what was expected, productivity in the manufacturing sector … decreased steadily. We compute Total Factor Productivity (TFP), for the first time, using firm-level data and in addition we …

productivity and economic reforms. Accordingly, we first compute industry-level productivity growth using advanced econometric … techniques and thereafter ascertain the time frame over which economic reforms impact productivity. The evidence suggests that … productivity growth is not reliably higher after reforms than prior to reforms. In addition, the findings indicate that it is …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is … value added. -- Productivity ; growth decomposition ; efficiency ; manufacturing …