This paper examines changes in agricultural productivity in 8 French-speaking countries. The relative performance of …-year period 1970-2000, mathematical programming methods were used to measure Malmquist indexes of total factor productivity …. It was found that, during that period, total factor productivity have experienced a negative evolution in sample …

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 …

to the dynamic of productivity. In 2010 the European Council adopted a new Agenda, Euro2020, which aim is to boost growth … focuses on the determinants of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in 13 manufacturing sectors in a panel of 18 OECD …

enhanced input productivity. …

The aim of this article is to estimate the determinants of industrial productivity growth in Colombia’s regions. In … this regard, we follow to Kumbhakar and Lovell (2000), who decompose total factor productivity growth into three sources …. This way, the Battese and Coelli’s model allows to get a deeper understanding of the causes of productivity growth. This …