examining the total factor productivity change and its components using both unadjusted and heteroscedasticity-adjusted data of … factor productivity change and its components when slacks are present. Second, the unadjusted and heteroscedasticity … winner in exhibiting better productivity and efficiency growth behavior; the nationalized banks exhibit marginal improvement …

productivity growth. We use the non-parametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis to construct the Biennial Malmquist Index of … total factor productivity for Indian states to determine if the states have experienced improvement in manufacturing … productivity during the post-reform years. Results show that at the all-India level, total factor productivity growth rate in …

In this study, we attempt to identify the channels through which economic reforms enhanced the productivity growth in … that there was evidence of a favorable impact of economic reforms on productivity growth in total manufacturing, beyond the …

productivity growth (TFPG) into technical change and efficiency change. Färe et al. (1994) measure TFPG by taking geometric mean of … productivity estimates of these two indexes are broadly similar. Our empirical results based on Indian Sunrise industries data … indicate that the transition period of economic liberalization experiences high productivity decay despite high technical …

-enhancing investments in emerging economies. -- Total Factor Productivity (TFP) ; plant level data ; competitiveness and trade …

grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour … productivity (LP) through technological upgradation. In a developing economy this may be a costly proposition due to capital … scarcity. So, the effect of technological changes on productivity levels has to be estimated before taking such policies. This …

This article addresses the question of why productivity growth in Indian manufacturing was slow in the pre …-reform period and analyzes how economic reforms in the 1990s accelerated productivity growth. The answer lies in two subtle but … important distortion-inefficiency mechanisms, which affected productivity growth by distorting intermediate input allocation …