Productivity Efficiency And Economic Growth In The Asia Pacific Region

Author : Jeong-Dong Lee,Almas Heshmati
Publisher : Physica
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3790823198

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Productivity, Efficiency, and Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region by Jeong-Dong Lee,Almas Heshmati Pdf

Productivity growth is a keyword for sustainable economic growth in a knowledge-based society. There has been significant methodological development in the literature on productivity and efficiency analysis, e.g. SFA (Stochastic Frontier Analysis) and DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). All these methodological developments should be matched with applications in order to provide practical implications for private and public decision-makers. This volume provides a collection of up-to-date and new applications of productivity and efficiency analysis. In particular, the case studies cover various economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The authors analyze the performance of manufacturing firms, banks, venture capital, broadcasting firms, as well as the issues of efficiency in the education sector, regional development, and defense industry. These case studies will shed light on the potential contribution of productivity and efficiency analysis to the enhancement of economic performance.

Author : Tsu-Tan Fu,Cliff J. Huang,C. A. Knox Lovell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822026176529

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Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region by Tsu-Tan Fu,Cliff J. Huang,C. A. Knox Lovell Pdf

Asian and western economists apply a variety of empirical techniques to measure productivity growth, factor accumulation, and economic efficiency at both large and small scales in the region as a whole and in specific countries over the past three decades. Their techniques include traditional growth accounting, econometric frontier estimation, and data envelopment analysis. Among the issues they discuss are the influential role of trade in the region, macroeconomic management, income, capital, labor productivity, technology, and investment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Tsu-Tan Fu,Cliff J. Huang,C. A. Knox Lovell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782542582

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Productivity and Economic Performance in the Asia-Pacific Region by Tsu-Tan Fu,Cliff J. Huang,C. A. Knox Lovell Pdf

'. . . this voluminous book is well put together and clearly worth a read.' - Renuka Mahadevan, ASEAN Bulletin Following on from their previous book Economic Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region, the authors in this volume analyse the economic performance of many of the major economies in the Asia-Pacific region including Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, China and Japan. They examine economic and productivity growth, competitiveness and efficiency developments in the region. An introductory essay by the editors surveys recent economic developments in the region whilst introducing and cohesively integrating the chapters that follow. The studies employ a variety of modern analytical constructs and empirical techniques of open economy growth accounting as well as the measurement of productivity change, technical change and economic efficiency. A number of the chapters examine the entire region while others focus exclusively on a nation or industry. Several chapters study the causes and consequences of the financial crises in the region in 1997 from a recent historical perspective.

Author : Jeong-Dong Lee,Almas Heshmati
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790820720

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Productivity, Efficiency, and Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region by Jeong-Dong Lee,Almas Heshmati Pdf

Productivity growth is a keyword for sustainable economic growth in a knowledge-based society. There has been significant methodological development in the literature on productivity and efficiency analysis, e.g. SFA (Stochastic Frontier Analysis) and DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). All these methodological developments should be matched with applications in order to provide practical implications for private and public decision-makers. This volume provides a collection of up-to-date and new applications of productivity and efficiency analysis. In particular, the case studies cover various economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The authors analyze the performance of manufacturing firms, banks, venture capital, broadcasting firms, as well as the issues of efficiency in the education sector, regional development, and defense industry. These case studies will shed light on the potential contribution of productivity and efficiency analysis to the enhancement of economic performance.

Author : James H. Gapinski
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0333794893

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Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region by James H. Gapinski Pdf

This book seeks to account for what James H. Gapinski calls the "miraculous" growth of Asian economies. He examines several major determinants of growth, including capital quantity (gross investment and physical depreciation), capital quality (embodied technical progress), labour quantity (employment), labour quality (education), international trade (exports and openness), and total factor productivity (growth not accounted for by capital and labour quantity). The book begins by providing an orientation to the region, discussing basic conditions and historical events. Part II gives the theory, facts, and explanation of growth, a main issue being productivity convergence. The author's analysis of growth determinants provides a natural framework from which to examine major issues that bear on Asian Pacific growth in the future, so the third part examines Hong Kong's growth under reversion to China and inquires into the growth consequences of the Asian currency crisis. Along the way, Gapinski examines implications for business and policy leaders of the current growth trends.

Author : Takatoshi Ito,Andrew K. Rose
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226387079

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Growth and Productivity in East Asia by Takatoshi Ito,Andrew K. Rose Pdf

Considering the examples of Australia and the Pacific Rim, Growth and Productivity in East Asia offers a contemporary explanation for national productivity that measures contributions not only from capital and labor, but also from economic activities and relevant changes in policy, education, and technology. Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose have organized a group of collaborators from several Asian countries, the United States, and other parts of the globe who ably balance both macroeconomic and microeconomic study with theoretical and empirical approaches. Growth and Productivity in East Asia gives special attention to the causes for the unusual success of Australia, one of the few nations to maintain unprecedented economic growth despite the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2001 global downturn. A new database comprising eighty-four Japanese sectors reveals new findings for the last thirty years of sectoral productivity and growth in Japan. Studies focusing on Indonesia, Taiwan, and Korea also consider productivity and its relationship to research and development, foreign ownership, and policy reform in such industries as manufacturing, automobile production, and information technology.

Author : Y. Wu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230228252

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Productivity, Efficiency and Economic Growth in China by Y. Wu Pdf

This book provides a detailed insight into productivity, efficiency and growth in the Chinese economy, and offers results on capital stock and ICT capital estimates (at both national and regional levels) which will be an important resource for readers.

Author : Kai Yuen Tsui,Thomas G. Rawski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000042017842

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Productivity, Efficiency and Reform in China's Economy by Kai Yuen Tsui,Thomas G. Rawski Pdf

Author : Renuka Mahadevan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781957118

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The Economics of Productivity in Asia and Australia by Renuka Mahadevan Pdf

"Suggests processes and strategies for choosing the best technique to draw up policies for sustainable growth." - dust jacket.

Author : Dale Weldeau Jorgenson,Masahiro Kuroda,Kazuyuki Motohashi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847208743

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Productivity in Asia by Dale Weldeau Jorgenson,Masahiro Kuroda,Kazuyuki Motohashi Pdf

In recent years there have been huge improvements in the methods and data to measure and analyze the sources of economic growth around the world. This volume on the growth accounts for four core economies in East Asia is a vital contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of growth. Bart van Ark, University of Groningen, The Netherlands The outstanding economic performance of East Asian countries has been investigated in numerous studies. However, most comparative studies analyze macro-level productivity. In this book, the productivity performance of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the United States are compared at industry level. The work is a result of an international collaborative research project by RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry), Japan. The total factor productivity growth and level amongst these five countries sheds new light on the industrial competitiveness of growing Asian economies compared to Japan and the United States. In addition, this book provides detailed information on productivity datasets for these five countries. Productivity in Asia will strongly appeal to scholars of Asian studies, industrial organization and economics as well as those interested in productivity statistics.

Author : Heinz Schandl,Jim West (Systems modeller),Tim Baynes,Karin Hosking,Walter Reinhardt,Arne Geschke,Manfred Lenzen
Publisher : UN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9280734555

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Indicators for a Resource Efficient and Green Asia and the Pacific by Heinz Schandl,Jim West (Systems modeller),Tim Baynes,Karin Hosking,Walter Reinhardt,Arne Geschke,Manfred Lenzen Pdf

This report paints a clear picture of the path taken by the countries in the region over the past 40 years in their resource use. Today, the region dominates global resource use, comprising more than 50 per cent and consumption is rapidly rising as economies grow, infrastructure is built and the middle class expands. But even accounting for economic growth, resource efficiency in the region lags far behind the rest of the world, and varies dramatically between countries. As an illustration, developing countries in the region use an average of 5kg of resources for every dollar they produce, ten times that used by industrialized countries. This begs the question of where we should seek the fastest and best improvements in efficiency and where the Asia Pacific region can find the "low-hanging fruit" to achieve resource efficiency in this high-tech age.

Author : Arindam Banik,Munim Kumar Barai,Yasushi Suzuki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811055928

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Towards A Common Future by Arindam Banik,Munim Kumar Barai,Yasushi Suzuki Pdf

This book focuses on the tremendous shift in both economic growth and development progress taking place towards the Asia-Pacific Region. Each of the countries in the region has various concerns and challenges for its sustainable development, a common goal most of them are trying to achieve at the moment. Interestingly, sustainable development in the region may be critical for achieving sustainable development at the global level as well. With a limited mandate, the book covers some specific developmental issues of ‘the hot spots’ of APR that are regarded to be contributing to their sustainable development. The book also looks at the formation and strengthening of some economic and financial initiatives with the potentials to affect growth and influence economic cooperation and integration of the countries in the region.

Author : Heinz Schandl
Publisher : UN
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213642783

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Resource Efficiency by Heinz Schandl Pdf

The first Resource Efficiency: Economics and Outlook (REEO) for Asia and the Pacific report focuses on demand for and use of natural resources, as drivers and as consequences of economic activity and social development. This report provides an overview of resource use patterns in Asia and the Pacific, explains why sustainable resource use and resource efficiency will become an economic and social imperative for the region, and presents information on how resource efficiency and sustainable resource use might be achieved through careful policy design. It aims to inform policy makers and practitioners working on integrated environment and development strategies in particular, as well as sustainability policies more generally.

Author : J.W. Harrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317056942

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Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific by J.W. Harrington Pdf

Until the 1990s, industrialization was the dominant development paradigm for the Asia-Pacific region. Since then, advanced services (finance, business or 'producer services', information and creative services) have become deeply embedded in the processes of economic growth and change in the region. This rapid tertiary expansion is fundamentally restructuring national and regional economies and urban form in line with the introduction of advanced production systems, national modernization programmes and the globalization strategies of governments. Services are being actively deployed as instruments of metropolitan reconfiguration and land use change. This book explores various aspects of the relationship between service industries and economic development in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand. It provides new sector-oriented and regional and national perspectives on services and development.

Author : ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PA.,United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789210013611

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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2022 by ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PA.,United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Pdf

The Asia-Pacific region has been leading the global economic growth over the past few decades. However, rapid economic growth without sufficient inclusiveness is now constraining the region's future economic and broader development prospects. The COVID-19 pandemic has further revealed the vulnerability of the region due to lack of inclusiveness. The Survey 2021 estimated that 89 million people could have been pushed back into extreme poverty in the region due to COVID-19, contributing to an already increasing trend in income inequality in Asia and the Pacific. Going forward, concerns over a “K-shaped” economic recovery, both within and across countries, and the desire to ensure that the post-pandemic recovery is consistent with long-term inclusive development are broadly shared among policy makers and experts, as revealed during policy dialogues organized to disseminate the messages of Survey 2021. Additionally, international commitment to inclusive development, as manifested in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is pushing distributional issues to the forefront of global policy agenda. With a focus on the role of economic policies in promoting inclusive development, the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2022 will analyze the importance of effective government actions and the role of fiscal, monetary/financial and structural policies in enhancing inclusiveness, keeping in view the considerable impacts of COVID-19 on inclusiveness and inequality.