Various studies showed that total factor productivity (TFP) has not been a source of growth in the Philippines. It … rather than on increasing use of factor inputs. Total factor productivity improvement is the only route to sustain economic … growth in the long run. After a brief review of economic growth and productivity dynamics of the Philippine economy in the …

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … output per worker as well as on total factor productivity (TFP). The results confirm earlier findings by Feyrer (2007 …

of proxy variables, whereas Total Factor Productivity is used as a measure of economic growth. Panel data of 26 European …. Business Birth Rate, Self-employment Rate, Business Investment and Labour Productivity Growth were all found to be highly …

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 …