Technical efficiency and technological change in Malaysian service industries

This article examines the total factor productivity (TFP) growth by decomposing it into technical efficiency and technological change for the 20 service industries in a developing country - Malaysia from 1987 to 1992. On average, the TFP growth of the service industries experienced positive TFP growth of 1.8%. The contributing factors for TFP growth was technical efficiency while technological regress was found to dampen the TFP progress.

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Chandran, V. G. R. ; Pandiyan, Veera
Published in:	Applied Economics Letters. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1350-4851. - Vol. 15.2008, 8, p. 655-657
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals

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Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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