Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth in the Tunisian Manufacturing Industry: A Malmquist Index Approach

Kalai, Maha; Helali, Kamel

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“…Single factor productivity measures usually include labor or capital; and multifactor productivity measures include capital and labor, or capital, labor, and intermediate inputs like services, energy, materials, etc. [26]).…”

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“…Zrelli and Belloumi [44] used MI for investigating the impact of environmental strategies on the Tunisian manufacturing industry during 1994-2008 by using data from 26 industries and found an average increase of 1.5% a year. Similarly, technical change and total factor productivity growth in the Tunisian manufacturing industry was evaluated by Kalai and Helali [26] by using data from six industries. They found that the industry achieved poor technological progress rates, and the efficiency gain observed was attributed to improvements in the technology.…”

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Malmquist Indexes of Productivity Change in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Zrelli

Tlili

2020

Sustainability

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This research aims to investigate the extent and nature of productivity growth in manufacturing industries using nonparametric frontier techniques. In order to decompose the total factor productivity (TFP) into technical efficiency change and technological change we use the output-oriented Malmquist productivity index method for 34 Tunisian manufacturing industries over the period 2002–2016. The results indicated that TFP has witnessed an average growth of two percent over the period 2002–2016. The productivity growth identified was attributed to the improvements in the technology (or frontier-shift) rather than improvements or changes in the efficiency.

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Malmquist Indexes of Productivity Change in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Zrelli

Tlili

2020

Sustainability

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“…Furthermore, according to Jackson and Liao (2021), as inflation rises, fewer jobs are created, workers experience longer periods of unemployment and their skills deteriorate, leading to lower TFP. In other words, they capture the negative impact of inflation on TFP through the skill loss channel (Kalai & Helali, 2016). Thus, TFP growth reflecting the efficiency of the production factor combination and depending to a large extent on technological progress remains dependent on the enabling macroeconomic environment.…”

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Slowdown in total factor productivity of French private companies: Between microeconomic heterogeneity and inappropriate government policies

Bouattour,

Kalai,

Helali

2023

Manage Decis Econ

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This article aims to find an explanation for the slowdown in the total factor productivity (TFP) of private firms on the one hand, and on the other hand, to show the need for state intervention through government policies whose impacts on TFP were verified in the literature. In this paper, we examined the relationship between different government policies and TFP growth for 78 French firms covering the period 2005 to 2019. Firstly, this study showed that TFP varies considerably over time, suggesting that microeconomic factors may have an important impact on firms' TFP. Secondly, some of the government policies were favorable to TFP growth while others were rather hindering. Indeed, the positive impact of both public infrastructure spending and public subsidies to French firms shows that an expansionary fiscal policy would allow a recovery in TFP. On the other hand, taxes on imported products, the exchange rate and cost‐competitiveness ratio, with a negative impact, show that the competitiveness policies adopted are unfavorable to the resumption of TFP growth. Thirdly, it should be noted that operating, investment and R&D subsidies were channels for the effectiveness of French government policies. Finally, by taking into account a set of macroeconomic indicators, the study confirmed the positive impact of a favorable macroeconomic environment on the recovery of TFP.

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“…Kalai and Helali () further affirmed that productivity growth makes it possible to measure production efficiency gain and can serve as an indicator of technological progress. They argued that the lack of technological change was the main cause of failure of total productivity of thematic sectors.…”

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Gender Differentials among Subsistence Rice Farmers and Willingness to undertake Agribusiness in Africa: Evidence and Issues from Nigeria

Coker¹,

Akogun²,

Adebayo³

et al. 2017

African Development Review

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Gender disparities in resource access, utilization and competitiveness in agricultural production have been critical challenges to the achievement of food security and inclusive growth in Africa. Thus, this article determined rice farmers’ productivities and competitiveness, their willingness to undertake and factors influencing their participation in agribusiness across gender, using descriptive and inferential statistics. The study employed a case study of rice farmers in Ibaji Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria, to reach its conclusion. The study concluded that in spite of the willingness to invest in agribusiness, gender imbalance in socioeconomic status, resource use and incomes were still recurring issues limiting productivity, competiveness in rice production and by extension, food security. To feed Africa, there is the need to close the gender gap in socio‐economic status, resource access, productivity and competitiveness, align national with regional agenda and the global sustainable development goals on hunger and equity, with the view to pooling resources towards tackling the food insecurity on an equitable and sustainable basis. It has also become imperative to support effective policy deployment, implement proven innovative and sustainable agri‐business models and embark on targeted gender support within country and regional settings.

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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth in the Tunisian Manufacturing Industry: A Malmquist Index Approach

Cited by 6 publications

References 24 publications

Malmquist Indexes of Productivity Change in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Malmquist Indexes of Productivity Change in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries

Slowdown in total factor productivity of French private companies: Between microeconomic heterogeneity and inappropriate government policies

Gender Differentials among Subsistence Rice Farmers and Willingness to undertake Agribusiness in Africa: Evidence and Issues from Nigeria

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