This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

the traditional (desirable-output-oriented) technical productivity and the undesirable-output-oriented environmental, or … so-called "green", productivity. To measure the latter, we derive a Solow-type Divisia environmental productivity index … which, unlike conventional productivity indices, allows crediting the ceteris paribus reduction in undesirable outputs. Our …

Productivity and efficiency are key performance indicators of improved seeds. Efficiency differences explain part of … the variation in productivity. Improved seeds may affect efficiency because farmers often do not apply inputs at optimum …. Improved seeds therefore not only directly affect productivity but also indirectly through efficiency. If productivity and …

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …

productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …

considered as a measure of this objective and, in turn, as a measure of productivity in relation to the production process in …