This paper investigates Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and efficiency growth pattern for India's chemical industry for … different performance measures, viz. productivity growth, technological change and technical efficiency change for the period … for accelerating productivity change in Indian chemical industry. The subsectors of the industry that experienced higher …

Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to determine the different levels of productivity and efficiency improvement over this period. The … results point to modest, but positive productivity gains in the larger urban centers, independent of industry structure …. Further, it highlights the need to consider exogenous factors that can influence productivity outcomes in an industry …

In this study, the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in the US truckload (TL) carriers is … index is used to study the productivity changes in the US TL carriers. The window analysis results reveal that the average …, allows productivity changes to be decomposed into two categories: technical efficiency changes, and technological changes …

This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …

in agriculture than in manufacturing. Further, a decomposition of labor productivity growth in eight Asian countries for …