The underdeveloped service sector in Asia has the potential to become a new engine of economic growth for developing … Asia, which has traditionally relied on export-oriented manufacturing to power its growth. The central objective of this …, somewhat surprisingly in light of the difficulty of achieving productivity gains in services, we also find that services labor …

-side policies that foster productivity growth will be vital for sustaining developing Asia's future growth in the postcrisis period …While developing Asia has recovered strongly from the global crisis, the region faces the medium- and long … estimate total factor productivity growth (TFPG) and account for the relative importance of labor, capital, and TFPG in growth …

trade within Asia while reducing trade outside. Adopting them would shift employment from energy and mining to manufacturing … productivity could promote economic growth significantly and should be the policy focus. Best practice technologies in the Republic …

equitable society that provides opportunities for all. Developing Asia has trailed other parts of the world in equity …

The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …

, productivity growth and capital accumulation. Moreover, there is evidence of a positive contribution to the process stemming from …

indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during other technological … Sweden 1900-35. The results show that during the productivity boom of the 1920s, the constant prices for electric motors … high productivity growth in the industry producing electric motors 1920-29. In contrast to Sweden, the US annual total …