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Productivity, efficiency and economic growth: east Asia and the rest of the world

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  • Han, Gaofeng
  • Kalirajan, Kaliappa
  • Singh, Nirvikar

    (University of California, U.S.A
    Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development, Japan
    University of California, U.S.A.)

Abstract

This study compares the sources of growth in East Asia with the rest of the world, using a methodology that allows one to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth into technical efficiency changes (catching up) and technological progress. It applies a varying coefficients frontier production function model to aggregate data for the period 1970-1990, for a sample of 45 developed and developing countries. Our results are consistent with the view that East Asian economies were not outliers in terms of TFP growth. Of the high-performing East Asian economies, our methodology identifies South Korea as having the highest TFP growth, followed by Singapore, Taiwan and Japan. Our methodology also allows us to separately estimate technical efficiency change, which is a component of TFP growth, and we find that, in general, the estimated technical efficiency of the high-performing East Asian economies was not out of line with the rest of the world.

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  • Han, Gaofeng & Kalirajan, Kaliappa & Singh, Nirvikar, 2004. "Productivity, efficiency and economic growth: east Asia and the rest of the world," Journal of Developing Areas, Tennessee State University, College of Business, vol. 37(2), pages 99-118, January-M.
    • Handle: RePEc:jda:journl:vol.37:year:2004:issue2:pp:99-118
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    1. Paul W. Wilson & Shirong Zhao, 2025. "A non-parametric analysis of world productivity growth, 1990–2019," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 346(3), pages 2253-2285, March.
    2. Talent Zwane & Mduduzi Biyase & Mokgadi Maleka & Abelwe Maluleka, 2020. "Technical Efficiency and Economic Growth in the SADC Region," Economia Internazionale / International Economics, Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato Agricoltura di Genova, vol. 73(2), pages 307-324.

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    JEL classification:

    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems
    • F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration

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