Does competition enhance productivity growth of a developing economy? Is global competition conducive to economic … development? Especially, does competition with more advanced producers in the global market promote productivity growth of … productivity growth and economic development? Many researchers have been working to find a better answer to these, perhaps quite …

productivity and reduce the undesirable output simultaneously. Based on directional distance function, this paper proposes a novel … improvement in net growth of potential output and the steadily increasing growth of total factor productivity. This favors Porter …