This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but …

Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its … measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two … reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should reflect the productivity of the lower levels, which comprise the aggregate …

productivity and economic reforms. Accordingly, we first compute industry-level productivity growth using advanced econometric … techniques and thereafter ascertain the time frame over which economic reforms impact productivity. The evidence suggests that … productivity growth is not reliably higher after reforms than prior to reforms. In addition, the findings indicate that it is …

This paper analyses total factor productivity growth in the unorganized manufacturing sector in India using several …-01. Data Envelopment Analysis is used to compute Malmquist total factor productivity index and its components. The impact of … economic reforms on efficiency is examined. Evidence suggests that total factor productivity registered a positive growth …

Studies on Indian manufacturing have been unable to provide consistent estimates of productivity and its growth rates …, TFP growth increases substantially in the public corporations. Productivity transition seems to be random across different … (3-digit NIC code) industries. Industries with focus towards services experienced higher productivity growth than others …

This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

accounting for human capital, total factor productivity differences over time accounts for 48% to 69% of output variation. TFP …. Starting from a modest rate in 60s Productivity growth dipped and became negative in 70s. This productivity growth rate started …

greater competition and at liberalizing key aspects of economic activity. This paper investigates productivity trends in India … productivity (TFP) growth in total manufacturing and many of the component sectors since 1980 were markedly higher than that in the … about factor elasticities and the assumed structure of the production function; (ii) productivity growth for total …