productivity analysis, emphasizing the link between productivity and efficiency measurement, and environmental impacts. The purpose … productivity and efficiency: a review of concepts, methods and empirical work / Tiho Ancev, M. A. Samad Azad and Mahmuda Akter -- 3 … pollution in measuring agricultural total factor productivity: a study of OECD economies / Viet-Ngu Hoang and Clevo Wilson -- 7 …

finding is that manufacturing shows little evidence of either labor productivity or multifactor productivity convergence … convergence results, the paper introduces a new measure of multifactor productivity which avoids many problems inherent to … traditional measures of total factor productivity when comparing productivity levels. The lack of convergence in manufacturing is …

This paper examines labour productivity convergence tendencies, among 28 developed and developing countries, in … only on large production capacity, cheap labour and abundant natural resources. -- Labour productivity convergence …