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 …

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 …

Obtaining reliable data on capital is a recurring challenge when estimating economy-wide productivity growth …, especially for developing countries. In this paper I construct energy-based productivity series which use energy consumption … energy-based series are strongly correlated with other sources historically. I then estimate energy-based productivity growth …