Training, technology upgrading, and total factor productivity improvement of farms: A case of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) production in Dak Lak province, Vietnam

The Nigerian Microfinance sub-sector is yet to attain the desired level of global best practice. This paper thus investigates the performance and productivity changes of MFBs in South-West Nigeria, from 2006 to 2010, having had the Microfinance Policy launched in 2005. The study revealed that only 16.28% of the sampled MFBs met the recommended maximum PAR value of 5% in 2006 and that was the highest throughout the sample period. It was also revealed that 31.14% of the sampled MFBs reported a debt/equity ratio of above the recommended value of 2 in 2006, while 32.56% had gearing of over 2 in 2010. The MFBs experienced fluctuating performances in their productivity changes, with pure technical efficiency improvements in 2007 and 2009. However, the MFBs suffered technological decline throughout the study period. Overall, the MFBs experienced Total Factor Productivity improvement in 2007, while there were productivity deteriorations in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

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An investigation on the effect of technology on total factor productivity improvement of insurance firms

Management Science Letters ◽

10.5267/j.msl.2014.5.029 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (7) ◽

pp. 1591-1594 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kambiz Peykarjou ◽

Tahereh Malekshahi

Keyword(s):

Total Factor Productivity ◽

Factor Productivity ◽

Productivity Improvement ◽

Insurance Firms

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Technology Upgrading in Emerging Economies

The Challenges of Technology and Economic Catch-up in Emerging Economies ◽

10.1093/oso/9780192896049.003.0003 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 67-99

Author(s):

Randolph Luca Bruno ◽

Kirill Osaulenko ◽

Slavo Radosevic

Keyword(s):

Total Factor Productivity ◽

Labor Productivity ◽

Emerging Economies ◽

Explanatory Power ◽

Factor Productivity ◽

Domestic Technology ◽

Different Dimensions ◽

Process Scale ◽

Technology Exchange ◽

Technology Upgrading

The chapter applies a newly developed approach to technology upgrading to a sample of sixteen economies during 2002–16. The “Index of Technology Upgrading” is based on three complementary, but autonomous components that proxy for three different dimensions of the technology upgrading process: scale or intensity of technology activities (A); breadth or scope of technology upgrading activities (B); and interaction with the economy related to technology exchange (C). The results of our study reveal facets of the technology upgrading process and the relative positions of countries, which conventional mainstream approaches and composite indicators do not make evident. We conduct an econometric exercise, which shows that the index of technology upgrading contributes significantly to explaining changes in both total factor productivity and labor productivity, but that the index of technology exchange has no explanatory power. This latter result suggests that to contribute to increased productivity, openness to technology exchange needs to be complemented by domestic technology accumulation activities.

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Productivity Changes in Slovenian Urban Municipalities

Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government ◽

10.4335/12.3.417-429(2014) ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 417-429 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Primož Pevcin

Keyword(s):

Technological Change ◽

Technical Efficiency ◽

Total Factor Productivity ◽

Productivity Change ◽

Factor Productivity ◽

Efficiency Change ◽

Productivity Improvement ◽

Urban City ◽

Productivity Indices ◽

Annual Means

Paper estimates productivity change in 10 Slovenian urban (city) municipalities during the period 2009-2012. Total factor productivity (TFP) change is estimated with input-orientated Malmquist productivity indices, which enables the productivity change to be decomposed into technical efficiency change and into technological change. The results indicate that average TFP annual means decreased by 5.8 % during the report period, and only one urban municipality experienced productivity improvement. Besides, technological regress can be identified as the main source of TFP decrease during the report period.

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Productivity Dispersion across Districts in Punjab

THE LAHORE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS ◽

10.35536/lje.2019.v24.i2.a2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 25-48

Author(s):

Maryiam Haroon

Keyword(s):

Total Factor Productivity ◽

Industrial Policy ◽

Industrial Clusters ◽

Factor Productivity ◽

Productivity Improvement ◽

Firm Level ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Industrial Base ◽

Economic Zones ◽

The Relationship

Industrial clusters and special economic zones are key areas of focus for industrial policy makers who are aiming to expand the industrial base and increase competitiveness. Thus, the role of development of industrial clusters in the productivity improvement of manufacturing firms merits attention. We use the firm-level Census of Manufacturing Industries (CMI) and Directory of Industries (DOI) datasets to empirically investigate the relationship between agglomeration and firm level total factor productivity for different sectors in Punjab, Pakistan. Our findings suggest that there is a correlation between localization, urbanization and total factor productivity of firms in the Punjab. However, the relationship varies by sectors, necessarily pointing industrial policy towards sector-specific recommendations.

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