Change and Productivity Growth Hulten or Jorgensen -- 6. Index Numbers Balk (provisionally agreed) -- 7. Market Structures …

of Technical Change and Productivity Growth Hulten or Jorgensen -- 6. Index Numbers Balk (provisionally agreed) -- 7 …

Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …

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 …