Productivity and efficiency change lies at the heart of achieving sustainable growth in China. This paper computes and …

This paper uses a modified policy analysis matrix (PAM) approach to assess the efficiency of cotton production in five … major producing states in India. The results indicate that cotton is not efficiently produced in the second largest cotton … producing state in the country. Without government interventions, it is likely that acreage will move away from cotton to more …

programming approach to efficiency estimation; introduces the Malmquist productivity index and shows how to decompose it into … various sources of productivity change, including variation in productive efficiency; and describes three ways of … approximating a Malmquist productivity index: the use of superlative index numbers, the use of econometric techniques, and the use …

total factor productivity growth could be useful and valuable in drafting any future policy. Since the early 1990s, many … and productivity analysis studies. The majority of empirical studies have involved applications to United States data … total factor productivity (TFP) growth of electricity utilities in Malaysia using a parametric model. Hence, in this study …

contrast, in the productivity stage linking the raw inputs to the revenues, we observe mostly decreasing returns to scale. Our …