Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to estimate wheat productivity in Bangladesh and forecast the future expected population and food requirements in the country by 2010. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reaches the objectives using total factors productivity approach, Box Jenkins...

Purpose – To explain the sources of jobless growth in Poland, the country undergoing economic system transition and integration with the European Union (EU). Design/methodology/approach – The research used the Harrod-Domar model together with an interpretation proposed by Barro and...

In their utilization of R&D (information) output, different sectors of a heterogeneous industry display different reaction times. This paper analyzes the effects of this temporal heterogeniety on output and productivity for an extended version of the Baumol-Wolff model. Results include...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the driving forces of China's recent rapid economic growth and its sustainability in the future. Design/methodology/approach – A stochastic production frontier approach is employed in order to investigate regional productivity...

Purpose – Most investors' retirement portfolios have inter-period cash inflows. The standard time-weighted mean return (or geometric mean return) is generally used to report returns on investors' retirement portfolios. The purpose of this paper is to examine the standard time-weighted mean...