technical change. Estimated technical efficiency scores are compared to productivity indexes offered by nonfrontier studies. We … conclude that differences in productivity are responsible for virtually all the differences of growth performance between …

This paper examines and applies the theoretical foundation of the decomposition of economic and productivity growth to … effect on growth. Technical progress is the main contributor to productivity growth and the scale effect has become important …

The paper extends the methodology of parametric decomposition of the Malmquist productivity index using an output … distance function. This approach addresses common methodological issues in total factor productivity estimation to produce … empirical application to Chinese agriculture shows that productivity grows at 2 percent per year on average from 1978 through …