productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is … explained by growth in the use of factor inputs. We also find that median technical efficiency declined in all but one of the … industries between the two years, and change in technical efficiency explains a very small proportion in the change in gross …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is … explained by growth in the use of factor inputs. We also find that median technical efficiency declined in all but one of the … industries between the two years, and change in technical efficiency explains a very small proportion in the change in gross …

This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …