, have the potential to achieve growth through efficiency improvements and by adopting technology. Output growth in the … aggregate and sectoral gross domestic product is driven by input, without increasing efficiency in production or benefiting from … from shifts in technology. Countries experiencing input-driven growth in the secondary sector, such as Namibia and Eswatini …

dataset of 10 ASEAN countries from 1980 to 2017, this study examines the productivity and efficiency of the ASEAN economies … productivity index to provide estimates of gross technical efficiency, technical progress and returns to scale change, while taking … into account of transient and persistent efficiency. The results show that there is room for efficiency gains, as the ASEAN …

envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance of this nonparametric approach to macroeconomic efficiency analysis and …