Productivity Progress Parameters for Manufacturing in an LDC: The Startup or Learning Phase in Bangladesh Jute Mills.

Uses power functions and linear ratio functions to measure productivity progress attributable to learning as a time-dependent phenomenon in the startup phase of spinning and weaving processes in individual Bangladeshi jute mills. In so doing, it provides evidence on the importance of learning-by-doing in manufacturing in an LDC, namely in the production of heavy and light yarn and in the manufacture of sacking and hessian in Bangladesh. Copyright 1985 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd/University of Adelaide and Flinders University of South Australia