1st Edition

Capacity Realization and Productivity Growth in a Developing Country Has Economic Reform Had Impact?

By Ruhul A. Salim Copyright 1999
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1999. Firms in manufacturing industries are influenced by the market-oriented liberalization reform policies in many developing countries since the late eighties. However, studies applying appropriate methodology to appropriate data seldom analyze the impact of reforms on the performance of production units such as manufacturing firms. The central point of this book is to... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Policy Regimes and Development Experiences in Bangladesh  3. Productive Performance Measures: Total Factor Productivity (TFP) Growth and Productive Capacity Realization  4. Suggested Measures of Productivity Capacity Realization and Productivity Growth  5. Measuring Productive Capacity Realization in Selected Manufacturing Industries  6. Sources of Output Growth: Empirical Estimation and Interpretation of Results  7. Determinates of Capacity Realization: An Empirical Analysis  8. Conclusions and Policy Implications

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Ruhul A. Salim