Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/45043 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2008/86
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We compare economic efficiencies in Brazil, India, and China, where economic efficiency measures the gap between potential and actual output for a given input combination and technological factor. We use stochastic production frontier models to measure the contributions of factors of production and technology to growth and estimate non-positive error terms that capture production inefficiencies in each country. The results suggest that China and India had relatively inefficient production in the early 1980s but have since improved production efficiency substantially. In the same period, production efficiency in Brazil has declined somewhat from relatively high initial levels and the gap between production efficiency between these countries has narrowed substantially, supporting more rapid growth in China and India relative to Brazil.
Subjects: 
growth
trade
production
JEL: 
F43
O24
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-140-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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