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Technical efficiency and technological change in Malaysian service industries

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  • V. G. R. Chandran
  • Veera Pandiyan

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This article examines the total factor productivity (TFP) growth by decomposing it into technical efficiency and technological change for the 20 service industries in a developing country - Malaysia from 1987 to 1992. On average, the TFP growth of the service industries experienced positive TFP growth of 1.8%. The contributing factors for TFP growth was technical efficiency while technological regress was found to dampen the TFP progress.

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  • V. G. R. Chandran & Veera Pandiyan, 2008. "Technical efficiency and technological change in Malaysian service industries," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(8), pages 655-657.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:15:y:2008:i:8:p:655-657
    DOI: 10.1080/13504850600721932
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