Capacity realization and productivity growth in a developing country : has economic reform had impact? / Ruhul A. Salim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salim, Ruhul A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial productivity--Bangladesh.

Manufacturing industries--Bangladesh.

Bangladesh--Economic policy.

Local Subjects:

Industrial productivity--Bangladesh.

Manufacturing industries--Bangladesh.

Bangladesh--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

xviii pages, 225 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate, [1999]

Contents:

2 Policy Regimes and Development Experiences in Bangladesh 9

Bangladesh Economy Pre-reform Era (1973-82) 10

Policies that Affected Industrialization in the 1970s 21

Economic Policy Reforms in the 1980s and the Bangladesh Economy 26

3 Productive Performance Measures: Total Factor Productivity (TFP) Growth and Productive Capacity Realization 43

Total Factor Productivity Growth: Theories and Methodologies 44

Productive Capacity Realization: Theories and Methodologies 54

Frontier Production Function and Productivity Measures 65

4 Suggested Measures of Productive Capacity Realization and Productivity Growth 75

Measurement of Productive Performances: The Random Coefficient Production Frontier Approach 77

Estimation Procedures for the Coefficients and Covariances 82

Measuring Firm-Specific PCR 87

Measuring the Sources of Output Growth 89

5 Measuring Productive Capacity Realization in Selected Manufacturing Industries 96

Structure and Performance of Selected Industries 97

Model Specification and Estimation 102

Data Sources and Variables Construction 104

Results and Interpretation 110

Measurement of Capacity Realization 115

6 Sources of Output Growth: Empirical Estimation and Interpretation of Results 127

Sources of Growth Analysis 128

Some Comparative Analysis 133

Decomposition of TFP Growth 136

Biases in Technological Progress 143

7 Determinants of Capacity Realization: An Empirical Analysis 152

Determinants of Capacity Realization: Theory and Evidence 153

Analytical Model 162

Empirical Results and Interpretation 175

8 Conclusions and Policy Implications 192

Major Findings 193

Policy Implications 195

Limitations and the Focus of Further Study 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-221) and index.

ISBN:

1840149701

OCLC:

41017778