productivity growth and its cross-country differences, thus implying an important role (as yet unexplained) for the Solow Residual … or the Total Factor Productivity (TFP). However, the increased application of non-parametric methods in growth accounting … that the appropriate technology view is useful in explaining labour productivity growth and its cross-country differences …

grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour … productivity (LP) through technological upgradation. In a developing economy this may be a costly proposition due to capital … scarcity. So, the effect of technological changes on productivity levels has to be estimated before taking such policies. This …

national income is questioned because of their low productivity. The present paper tries to identify important determinants of … productivity level in Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SMEs) and suggest appropriate policies for augmenting productivity levels … determinants of productivity. A close association between productivity levels and emolument per worker is also observed. Policies …

looking at the total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Furthermore, the study also investigate the efficiency in commercial … bank sector, finance and securities company sector and insurance company sector, and the efficiency in domestic and foreign … Thai financial sector, commercial bank sector and finance and securities company sector was diminishing over the period of …

In this paper we study the efficiency and total factor productivity growth of Italian regions by implementing a … decomposition of productivity growth, conducted by means of Malmquist’s index, highlighted that also in Southern regions, in which …

individual banks, the efficiency and productivity of the overall industry declined after regulation. We also find that … productivity had positive growth before regulation mainly due to improvements in pure technology, and that government ownership had …

This paper aims to find the productivity change in the banking sector between 1990 and 2006, with an emphasis to the …. The productivity of the banking sector is found out to have increased, the main reason being technological improvement … rather than efficiency increase. For the cases of productivity decline, however, the changes come from the efficiency side …