Technical Progress in Indian Agriculture: Temporal Analysis

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Bakul H Dholakia ◽  
Ravindra H Dholakia
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Indian Agriculture

The role of technical progress in determining the performance of Indian agriculture is the issue addressed by Bakul H Dholakia and Ravindra H Dholakia in this paper. An attempt has also been made to estimate the extent of technical progress in Indian agriculture during the period 1950-51 to 1988-89. According to the authors, the contribution of technical progress to the growth of agriculture has been steadily rising and acceleration in total factor productivity has contributed significantly to acceleration in the overall growth of the Indian economy during the eighties.

Silk Road Economic Belt strategy and industrial total-factor productivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 260-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Feng ◽  
Lingdi Zhao ◽  
Huanyu Jia ◽  
Shuangyu Shao
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Silk Road Economic Belt ◽  
The Difference

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of the Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) strategy and its role of industrial productivity in China. Design/methodology/approach To identify the causal effect of this strategy on industrial sustainable development, the authors first use the slacks-based measure model to calculate industries’ total-factor productivity (TFP) considered with CO2 emissions as undesirable output on the provincial level. Then, the authors use the PSM-DID method to identify the difference of TFPs between provinces and industries before and after the implementation of SREB strategy. Findings However, the authors find that there is no difference or even a relative decrease in TFPs of industries in target provinces after the implementation of the strategy, which reveals that the SREB strategy does not play a positive role of the industries’ sustainable development in years of 2014 and 2015. Originality/value The value of this result is to identify the short-term impact of SREB strategy and to seek for probable causes and appropriate solutions.

Legal Capacity

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Besley ◽  
Torsten Persson
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Empirical Observation ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
The Right ◽  
Productive Role

This chapter focuses on the productive role of government in improving the environment for doing business. Improvements in the performance of government are measured as total factor productivity and differences in income across countries can be explained by differences in the quality of their economic institutions. This makes it essential to understand why some countries make the right investments in legal institutions and deploy such legal capacity effectively. A running theme of the chapter is the possibility of a complementarity between the extractive (taxation) and the productive (supporting markets) roles of government. This is at the heart of the empirical observation that market development and state development move hand in hand. But the key insight from this is that we have to understand the incentives of a government to make investments to improve the workings of the economy.

Growth of Factor Inputs and Total Factor Productivity in Indian Public Sector Enterprises

1977 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Bakul H. Dholakia
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Factors Of Production ◽  
Factor Inputs ◽  
Better Than

The public sector undertakings in India have come under heavy criticism for inefficient management and low profitability. In view of the importance these undertakings command in the Indian economy, the author has done a detailed study of the productivity and efficiency of factors of production, and has concluded that the undertakings have, on the whole, performed better than the economy.

scholarly journals The Decline of British Manufacturing, 1973–2012: The Role of Total Factor Productivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 247 ◽  
pp. R19-R31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Harris ◽  
John Moffat
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Tfp Growth ◽  
Manufacturing Productivity ◽  
Plant Level

This paper uses plant-level estimates of total factor productivity covering 40 years to examine what role, if any, productivity has played in the decline of output share and employment in British manufacturing. The results show that TFP growth in British manufacturing was negative between 1973 and 1982, marginally positive between 1982 and 1994 and strongly positive between 1994 and 2012. Poor TFP performance therefore does not appear to be the main cause of the decline of UK manufacturing. Productivity growth decompositions show that, in the latter period, the largest contributions to TFP growth come from foreign-owned plants, industries that are heavily involved in trade, and industries with high levels of intangible assets.

scholarly journals The Role of Agricultural Sector Productivity in Economic Growth: The Case of Iran’s Economic Development Plan

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morteza Tahamipour ◽  
Mina Mahmoudi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Total Factor Productivity Growth ◽  
Development Plan ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Economic Development Plan

This study provides the theoretical framework and empirical model for productivity growth evaluations in agricultural sector as one of the most important sectors in Iran’s economic development plan. We use the Solow residual model to measure the productivity growth share in the value-added growth of the agricultural sector. Our time series data includes value-added per worker, employment, and capital in this sector. The results show that the average total factor productivity growth rate in the agricultural sector is -0.72% during 1991-2010. Also, during this period, the share of total factor productivity growth in the value-added growth is -19.6%, while it has been forecasted to be 33.8% in the fourth development plan. Considering the effective role of capital in the agricultural low productivity, we suggest applying productivity management plans (especially in regards of capital productivity) to achieve future growth goals.

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