change and technical efficiency change in India's paper industry. The prime objective of this article is to assess the impact … of liberalization on productivity growth of India's paper industry. Specifically, this study quantifies the level of … technical efficiency and technical change in this particular manufacturing sector. The paper applies Malmquist Productivity …

Applying a stochastic production frontier to sector-level data within manufacturing, this paper examines total factor …

The extent to which Indian organized manufacturing performance changed after the Economic Reform of 1991 has been an …-71 through 2007-08, this paper compares the pre- and post-reform performances of Indian manufacturing in terms of total factor … total factor productivity for Indian states to determine if the states have experienced improvement in manufacturing …

total manufacturing sector in India. Because one possible channel is better utilization of plant capacity, we estimate … capacity utilization rate in Indian manufacturing. Empirical estimates show that the annual average capacity utilization rate … in Indian manufacturing was lower over the post-reform years. However, after the reforms capacity utilization rate grew …

elaborates on the key sources of finance existing for Thai manufacturing SMEs and their importance for SME performance as … the results from the survey reveal that few Thai manufacturing SMEs actively seek external finance from these institutions …

data for the entire manufacturing sector in India. Using stochastic frontier approach, and therein the maximum likelihood …Performance in the manufacturing sector, in relation to productivity growth, scale efficiency and technical efficiency … in India is dichotomous in nature, depending on whether the firm in question functions in the formal or informal sector …

The objective of this paper is to study how manufacturing plants in India adjusted to trade liberalization during the … to an increase in labor share for labor intensive and low-technology plants. Hence, India's bias towards capital and …