The acceleration of productivity since 1995 has prompted a debate over whether the economy's underlying growth rate … identify variables other than productivity - namely consumption and labor compensation - to help estimate trend productivity … direction. In addition, we find that productivity data alone provide insufficient evidence of regime changes; corroborating …

productivity change in these institutions by applying the Malmquist approach on a four-year panel data set of 78 SUCs. The DEA …, productivity of about 62 percent of the SUCs has slightly improved in the period under review. The findings of the study point to a …