productivity growth in Malaysia. Using data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia from 1987 to 2018 and decompositions that … structural transformation but instead to sustained growth in within-sector labor productivity. At 3 percent, the contribution of …, the main policy challenge for Malaysia going forward will be to achieve sustainable labor productivity growth within …

-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for …

-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity …This paper describes and benchmarks innovation activities for a sample of countries in the South Asia region, as well … as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South …