Purpose Total factor productivity (TFP) has become a prominent concept in agriculture economics and policy over the last three decades. The main aim of this paper is to obtain detailed picture field via bibliometric analysis identify research streams future agenda. Design/methodology/approach data sample consists 472 papers several exercises. Citation collaboration structure analyses are employ...

The aim of this paper is to analyze total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components in Asian countries applying Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to the time series data of 44 Asian countries from 2000 to 2010. Using Battese and Coelli approach, TFP is divided into technical efficiency change and technical change. TFP decomposition using SFA method for the years 1998 to 2007 indicate...

This paper examines the impact of global value chain (GVC) participation on total factor productivity in African economies. The analysis is based panel corrected standard errors, IV-estimation technique and novel Method Moment (MM)-panel quantile regression. results reveal that there positive significant relationship between Specifically, we discover GVC significant. result consistent across al...

the main goal of this study is to identify the determinants of the energy intensity in the iranian economy using annual data for the period 1974-2012. changes in energy intensity can be seen as related to three factors including price, income, and autonomous energy efficiency improvements (based on technical progress). moreover the role of energy quality in enhancement of total factor productiv...