to expand economically and improve the quality of life for the population. Yet, productivity, profits and efficiency are … specificities and differences among metropolis is called for. However there has been a relatively scarce recording of productivity …

This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

A feature of the recent global slowdown in productivity growth is that progress at the technological frontier has … and competitive pressures can improve Australia's productivity performance, by increasing incentives for firms to adopt …

determinants of productivity and uses counter-factual analysis to decompose the causes of the PRC's post-crisis slowdown. It finds … inventory and productivity, while the opposite is observed between employment involvement rate and productivity. Third …, government size and investment rates both have significantly negative effects on productivity. Lastly, the diminishing late …

, however, there still is a large room for increasing productivity and efficiency to boost the agricultural potential of the … country further. The government of Kazakhstan has introduced several policy packages in the past to boost productivity and … found in terms of policy effect on productivity and efficiency. The results of the analysis showed that direct subsidy …

by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …

Productivity and efficiency are key performance indicators of improved seeds. Efficiency differences explain part of … the variation in productivity. Improved seeds may affect efficiency because farmers often do not apply inputs at optimum …. Improved seeds therefore not only directly affect productivity but also indirectly through efficiency. If productivity and …