infrastructure that were the primary reasons for Japan's rapid industrialization. Drawing on a detailed analysis of Japan's main … industrial development of the country since the Meiji Restoration and shows the extent to which Japan's own urbanization played a … urbanizing region – the industrial belt that runs along the Pacific coast of Japan's main island, from Osaka Bay to Tokyo – this …

productivity growth, and decompose it into technical efficiency change and technical progress. Our empirical results indicate that … world productivity growth was led by fast-growing newly emerging economies, whereas most developed countries experienced a … decrease in productivity growth. Technical efficiency change significantly contributed to economic growth for many fast …

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 …