...NPO-watch—Iran Reports from NIPO 11th anniversary celebration productivity; Mr. Reza Ashraf Semnani, Vice Chairman, Planning, Development and Technology Department, Ministry of Industry and Mines: productivity in industry and mines and national productivity; and NIPO Supervision and Planning Director Faghihi: NIPO’s mission. The National Iranian Productivity Organization (NIPO) celebrated its 11th anniversary on 24 May 2004 with a national conference on productivity growth and sustainable development. It was inaugurated by Iranian Vice President Dr. Hamid Reza Baradaran Shoraka, who gave an address on “The 20-year panorama and the role productivity plays in economic development plans.” He underlined the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) to the national economy and suggested that it should be included in the development plans of the administrative organizations at both the national and provincial levels. He also called for the establishment of a national productivity award. NIPO Vice Chairman and APO Alternate Director for Iran Dr. Ghasem Ansari Ranani told the meeting that the Fourth Five-Year National Development Plan of Iran will have a TFP component as it has a considerable role in increasing national economic growth. In supporting the Vice President’s call for promoting TFP in administrative organizations and establishing a national productivity award, he added that Iran should endeavor to achieve a labor, capital, and TFP growth of 3.5%...
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...Research paper on Linear Programming Problem Productivity growth and efficiency change in Indian banking: Technology effect vs catch-up effect Name: Gajanan S Ghadlinge Roll No. 18, MMS-I Document Information: | Title: | Productivity growth and efficiency change in Indian banking:Technology effect vs catch-up effect | Author(s): | Lakshmi Kumar, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), ChennaiD. Malathy, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, Chennai, andL.S. Ganesh, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras, Chennai, India | Citation: | Surender Kumar, (2006) "A decomposition of total productivity growth: A regional analysis of Indian industrial manufacturing growth", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 55 Iss: 3/4, pp.311 - 331 | Publisher: | Journal of Advances in ManagementResearch Vol. 7 No. 2, 2010pp. 194-218#Emerald Group Publishing Limited0972-7981DOI 10.1108/09727981011084995 | Abstract: | Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to understand the influence of technology change in the banking sector by employing data envelopment analysis (DEA) and also to determine the change in total factor productivity (TFP) and its components, namely technical change and technical efficiency change.Design/methodology/approach– The DEA method has been used to assess the efficiency of the entire banking sector and the bank groups. The purpose has been to investigate TFP change and its components’...
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