
Productivity:
Productivity Costs in Economic Evaluations Past, Present, and Future
This article is to show the past and present developments in the theory and practice of economic evaluations. During this report, there were questions on whether and how to include productivity costs, especially related to paid work. Several approaches have been proposed. Productivity costs are ignored in economic evaluations that had strong impact on cost-effectiveness outcomes.
Provincial Technology and Productivity Gaps in China Using Meta-Frontier
This article outlines studies that shows changes in productivity and change in productivity gap in three regions of China for 1995 through 2008. With findings that the group technical efficiency and meta-technical efficiency are different from each other, we found very important facts that may give wrong information and distort a reality with both productivity changes. China’s torrid growth has caused imbalance of trade and investments. When it comes to the efficient uses of resources, technical efficiency measures ratio between maximum and article outputs under the given inputs.
Determinants of Banks’ Total Factor Productivity: The Post-Asian Financial Crisis Experience of Thailand
The article present different structures of bank ownership that showed credit risk and diversification that carries negative impacts on Thailand bank’s total factor productivity. With early studies playing key roles arising from among Thailand economy, the pull out of investors, currency depreciations, higher interest rates; and large debt overhang is amongst some of the impact named. The Bank of Thailand (BOT) has qualified banking facilities with domestic commercial banks and foreign bank branches. The underlying factors the banking sector is essential for financial authorities. By using the whole gamut of commercial banks operating in Thailand, banking sector are contributing at least three important ways to focus on.
A measure of the efficiency of a person, machine, factory, system, etc., in converting inputs into useful outputs.






