Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,886
Cover Image
Looking Beyond the Methods : Productivity Estimates and Growth Trends in Indian Manufacturing
Gupta, Abhay - 2009
, index number and envelopment analysis methods. TFP growth rate average is 1.1% for both gross output based and net value …. Share of capital is constantly increasing. For the period just after the reforms (1991-1997), input growth jumps but TFP … growth is negative. But after 1998, the trend reverses and output grows slowly despite negative input growth due to large TFP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718180
Cover Image
Pre-Reform Conditions, Intermediate Inputs and Distortions : Solving the Indian Growth Puzzle
Gupta, Abhay - 2009
This paper answers the puzzling questions that why under the similar set of economic conditions service sector in India grew while manufacturing could not and how economic reforms in 1990s accelerated the productivity growth. The paper provides a very innovative and convincing explanation. Two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718182
Cover Image
Indian Economy - TFP or Factor Accumulation : A Comprehensive Growth Accounting Exercise
Gupta, Abhay - 2008
accounting for human capital, total factor productivity differences over time accounts for 48% to 69% of output variation. TFP … after using the Mincer wage regression coefficients, TFP growth still remains significant in explaining the output growth … improvement (TFP) rather than input accumulation growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214898
Cover Image
Drivers of developing Asia's growth : past and future
Park, Donghyun; Park, Jungsoo - 2010
While developing Asia has recovered strongly from the global crisis, the region faces the medium- and long-term challenge of sustaining growth beyond the crisis. The central objective of this paper is to empirically investigate the sources of economic growth in 12 developing Asian economies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826310
Cover Image
Can the UAE avoid the oil curse by economic diversification?
Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252644
Cover Image
Chapter 66 The Measurement of Productivity for Nations
Diewert, W. Erwin; Nakamura, Alice O. - In: Handbook of econometrics : volume 6A, (pp. 4501-4586). 2007
This chapter covers the theory and methods for productivity measurement for nations. Labor, multifactor and total factor productivity measures are defined and are related to each other and to gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Their growth over time and relative counterparts are defined as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024949
Cover Image
Economic growth in Asia: Determinants and prospects
Lee, Jong-Wha; Hong, Kiseok - In: Japan and the World Economy 24 (2012) 2, pp. 101-113
Using a growth accounting framework, we find that developing Asia grew rapidly over the past three decades mainly due to robust growth in capital accumulation. The contributions of education and total factor productivity in the region's past economic growth remain relatively limited. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574379
Cover Image
Economic growth in Asia : determinants and prospects
Lee, Jong-Wha; Hong, Kiseok - 2010
Using a growth accounting framework, we find that developing Asia grew rapidly over the past 3 decades mainly due to robust growth in capital accumulation. The contributions of education and total factor productivity in the region's past economic growth remain relatively limited. Our baseline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749709
Cover Image
The debate about the sources of growth in East Asia after a quarter of a century : much ado about nothing
Felipe, Jesus; McCombie, John S. L. - 2017
This paper reviews what the profession has learned during the last 25 years about East Asia's growth using growth accounting exercises and estimations of production functions. The publication of Alwyn Young's (1992, 1994, 1995) and Jong-Il Kim and Lawrence Lau's (1994) studies, and Paul...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647748
Cover Image
Is anything left of the debate about the sources of growth in East Asia thirty years later?
Felipe, Jesus; McCombie, John S. L. - 2023
The year 2023 commemorates the 30th anniversary of the publication of the influential, yet controversial, study The East Asian Miracle report by the World Bank (1993). An important part of the report's analysis was concerned with the sources of growth in East Asia. This was based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014342095