industry, with a focus on trade and productivity performance. While there has been a rise in exports and imports, productivity … fell significantly following policy liberalization. The absolute fall in productivity appears to have been linked with the … excess production capacity and higher production costs. The post-liberalization fall in productivity may signal the beginning …

need to promote a vision of a vibrant, fastgrowing economic region where more inclusion, higher productivity, and increased …

level of R&D. We analyze whether different R&D activities show a positive influence on total factor productivity (TFP) for …

‘Human Capital Theory’ shows that education is a vital part of improving productivity. This paper investigates … tertiary education, and productivity. This paper also uses Britain as a case study: the British Household Panel Study shows … that education is a cause (rather than an effect) of improvements in productivity. In conclusion, university …

potential growth, largely reflecting a decline of total factor productivity (TFP) growth; (ii) by contrast, trend growth for the …

sectors are weighed down by the structural barriers that have depressed productivity more broadly. Italy’s future …

enterprises, we estimate the “sequential production technology†in computing the Malmquist productivity index for various size …-groups of enterprises in Chinese industry. Our findings indicate that large enterprises did register the fastest productivity …