dataset of 10 ASEAN countries from 1980 to 2017, this study examines the productivity and efficiency of the ASEAN economies … productivity index to provide estimates of gross technical efficiency, technical progress and returns to scale change, while taking …

This paper applies the Malmquist productivity index method to measure total factor productivity (TFP) growth in …

and 2018 for 32 countries in Africa, to examine the causal relationship between firm productivity, innovation, and … financial development. We show evidence that firm innovation significantly and positively affects firm productivity. We also … show the mediating role of well-developed financial markets on productivity. In a well-developed financial market, the …

This study sought to estimate the level of technical efficiency and total factor productivity of RCBs in Ghana using … Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). The total factor productivity (TFP) was decomposed into efficiency change and technical … factor productivity levels. Technical efficiency change, on average, was the main source of total factor productivity change …

This study examines the spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers of Chinese provinces using a spatial Durbin … decomposition of direct and indirect (spillover) total factor productivity (TFP) growth, as well as the gross direct and indirect … efficiency of the respective provinces. The estimated results show that spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers are …

In an effort to address the decline in maize productivity, the government of Zimbabwe in 2016/17 endorsed a special …