productivity improvements and for that matter economic growth. The consensus is that technological change accounts for a … significant proportion of gross national product (GNP) growth in industrialised economies. In the case of Australia, the aggregate … growth level for the first time in its productivity growth history. However, this high productivity growth rate could not be …

measurement error for the Solow residual as a measure of TFP growth when the capital stock is measured with error and when … capacity utilization and depreciation are endogenous. Furthermore, it proposes two alternative measurements of TFP growth which … growth based on the properties of the Malmquist index. The fourth chapter introduces a new approach for identifying possible …

sustained plant and animal productivity growth. As a result there exists an urgent need to make agriculture more sustainable not … productivity, on average OECD countries had achieved an annual growth of one per cent. Moorsteen-Bjurek total factor productivity … (TFP) growth was attributed by 1.8% growth in technological progress. Input-orientated technical, scale and residual mix …

considers the assessment of the sources of the economic growth in East Asia countries. East Asian countries experienced … phenomenal economic growth from the 1970s to 1997, the so called "Asian Miracle," which ended when a financial crisis hit in 1997 …. There is a fundamental question with regard to the Asian Miracle. Which is the prime source of the rapid growth between …