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40 Citations
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29 July 2022

The scientific and reasonable measurement of agricultural green total factor productivity is helpful to grasp the direction of rural-factor-market reform. This study constructs a Malmquist productivity index based on a non-radial and non-angular SBM...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,781 Views
17 Pages

20 October 2022

Increasing total factor productivity is the key to promoting high-quality economic development. This paper starts with land supply as an institutional source factor and discusses the impact of the regional differentiation of land supply on total fact...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,132 Views
21 Pages

4 November 2022

Industrial intelligence is gaining more prominence in the new era of the technical revolution. This paper conducts an empirical test based on the panel data of 30 Chinese provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) from 2006 to 2017. Firstly, t...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,415 Views
19 Pages

In the digital transformation era, digitalization integrates deeply into production, bolstering output efficiency and economic value. Through stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), this research positions digitalization as an input in the production fun...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,734 Views
20 Pages

Population migration continues to reshape the spatial pattern of China’s population and regional economic development. During this internal migration process, production and consumption patterns often change, ultimately leading to changes in gr...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,397 Views
17 Pages

1 July 2020

Since total factor productivity growth plays an essential role in China’s economic growth, the source of this growth has been a critical issue over the past decades. Hence, this paper applies an input slack-based productivity (ISP) index to inv...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,349 Views
18 Pages

18 November 2022

Research on the impact of urbanization on total factor carbon productivity is of great significance to promote carbon emission reductions and achieve sustainable development. Based on the panel data of Central Asian countries from 1991 to 2019, the S...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,051 Views
15 Pages

Blockchain and Firm Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from China

  • Qilong Cao,
  • Jinglei Li,
  • Hongru Zhang,
  • Yue Liu and
  • Xun Luo

16 August 2022

This paper creatively constructs blockchain development indicators using geographical characteristics to investigate the influence of blockchain development on the total factor productivity of listed companies. Our findings reveal that local blockcha...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,949 Views
13 Pages

14 October 2024

Based on panel data of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China from 2011 to 2022, this paper empirically examines the impact of digitalization on the inputs and outputs of the agricultural production process, and thereby derives...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,001 Views
19 Pages

18 March 2022

The study estimates the impact of cluster commercial credit on manufacturing total factor productivity from the perspective of county-level clusters. The data were collected from 1998 to 2015 from the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Database. Various e...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,252 Views
16 Pages

A common conclusion in the literature is that both corruption and taxation hamper economic growth. It is also plausible that both affect total factor productivity, which, by the famous Solow residual, is a vital driver of economic progress. Moreover,...

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18 Citations
7,215 Views
21 Pages

Research on the Impact of Digital Economy on Manufacturing Total Factor Productivity

  • Jiaqi Chang,
  • Qingxin Lan,
  • Wan Tang,
  • Hailong Chen,
  • Jun Liu and
  • Yunpeng Duan

24 March 2023

This paper empirically tests the impact mechanism of digital economy development on manufacturing total factor productivity, using data from Chinese manufacturing enterprises from 2011 to 2020, and based on the theoretical framework of the impact of...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,029 Views
19 Pages

16 November 2022

The key to achieving sustainable growth is to increase total factor productivity. What role does the openness of social structure play in promoting total factor productivity? Based on data from the China Labor-force Dynamic Survey (CLDS), we used the...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,071 Views
14 Pages

6 September 2019

With the increase in labor costs in China and the tremendous changes in the international trade environment, upgrading the total factor productivity of Chinese furniture export enterprises faces a great challenge. Lots of studies have explored the in...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,241 Views
16 Pages

31 July 2021

Total factor productivity (TFP) is critical to the sustainable development of the rural distribution industry. Improvements in productivity of the rural distribution industry can promote the high-quality development of the Chinese distribution indust...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,167 Views
23 Pages

27 August 2023

The digital economy is an important engine for promoting green economic development, and the integration of the digital and real economies can accelerate the transformation of the real economy. In order to explore the multifaceted influence of digita...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,844 Views
16 Pages

17 June 2022

Because rice is one of China’s staple foods, studying the total factor productivity (TFP) of rice is of great importance for China’s food security. There are many similarities between rice production in China and Japan. Japan has achieved an effectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
5,702 Views
23 Pages

The Threshold Effect of China’s Financial Development on Green Total Factor Productivity

  • Yingying Zhou,
  • Yaru Xu,
  • Chuanzhe Liu,
  • Zhuoqing Fang,
  • Xinyue Fu and
  • Mingzhao He

10 July 2019

Using the slacks-based measure (SBM) directional distance function and constructing the Luenberger productivity index, we measure the green total factor productivity (GTFP) of China’s provinces under resource and environmental restrictions. At...

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  • Open Access
72 Citations
6,415 Views
25 Pages

10 April 2023

Improving agricultural green total factor productivity is important for achieving high-quality economic development and the SDGs. Digital inclusive finance, which combines the advantages of digital technology and inclusive finance, represents a new s...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,221 Views
13 Pages

Unpacking Total Factor Productivity on Dairy Farms Using Empirical Evidence

  • Kehinde Oluseyi Olagunju,
  • Erin Sherry,
  • Aurelia Samuel and
  • Paul Caskie

This study examines the farm-level factors that influence differences in total factor productivity (TFP) on dairy farms. To this end, a fixed-effects regression approach is applied to panel data for dairy farms obtained from the Farm Accountancy Data...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,635 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2022

In the context of China’s implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, it is essential to study the total factor productivity of animal husbandry in pastoral areas under the grassland ecological compensation policy, which is essential f...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,260 Views
13 Pages

29 May 2021

This paper takes 31 provinces in China from 2009 to 2018 as the research object. The three-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) model was used to measure the total factor productivity of forestry, and the entropy method was used to measure the level...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,147 Views
14 Pages

In this study, the DEA–Malmquist index method was used to measure the total factor productivity of citrus in seven major mandarin-producing provinces and seven major tangerine-producing provinces in China from 2006 to 2020. Moran’s I inde...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,281 Views
20 Pages

11 December 2023

The e-commerce-oriented transformation of cities is an important measure to enhance the vitality of economic development, improve the efficiency of resource allocation, and provide a new boost to the green and high-quality development of regions. Tak...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,738 Views
17 Pages

11 July 2023

With the emergence of the digital economy, digital technologies—such as artificial intelligence (AI)—have provided new possibilities for the green development of enterprises. Green total factor productivity is a key indicator of green sus...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,230 Views
19 Pages

4 April 2024

Environmental pollution and resource waste in Chinese cities have become important obstacles to sustainable economic development, and it is urgent to change the mode of economic development and improve the quality of economic development. In response...

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  • Open Access
71 Citations
5,381 Views
16 Pages

17 January 2022

Carbon emission reduction is becoming a global issue. Methods of reducing carbon emissions in developing countries have become a hot topic of discussion. Based on the obvious structural transformation in developing countries, this paper discusses the...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,400 Views
18 Pages

2 October 2022

Aquatic products are important sources of protein and food consumption, which are pivotal to solving the problem of food shortage. As the world’s largest producer of aquatic products, China’s aquaculture has developed rapidly. However, a...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,873 Views
27 Pages

4 September 2025

Although logistics underpins the spatial architecture of supply chains, the causal contribution of logistics industry clustering to green total factor productivity (GTFP) remains under-identified relative to aggregate or manufacturing clustering. Thi...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,978 Views
18 Pages

15 June 2020

China’s energy consumption in urban areas accounts for a large proportion of total energy consumption, and many pollutants are emitted with the energy consumption. Considering the requirement for green development of economy, it is necessary to...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,643 Views
18 Pages

15 March 2023

Green development and the high-quality economic growth model have replaced the extensive growth model in an effort to reduce the large amounts of energy consumption and pollution emissions. Green total factor productivity has become an important indi...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
10,159 Views
12 Pages

Total Factor Productivity of Agricultural Firms in Vietnam and Its Relevant Determinants

  • Mai Huong Giang,
  • Tran Dang Xuan,
  • Bui Huy Trung and
  • Mai Thanh Que

In Vietnam, agriculture is a key sector that promotes economic growth and poverty reduction. Therefore, improving productivity in agriculture is indispensable to the sustainability of the country. This research examined productivity and its determina...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,416 Views
16 Pages

The power source, spatial-temporal differentiation and convergence of the growth rate of green total factor productivity in China’s agriculture were analyzed. The Malmquist index was used to measure the growth rate, and the spatial-temporal con...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,046 Views
19 Pages

14 November 2024

Mariculture plays a crucial role in the marine industry, holding significant importance for global food provision, coastal economic growth, and marine ecological preservation. However, mariculture encounters challenges such as resource scarcity, envi...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,472 Views
28 Pages

29 June 2023

As a new product resulting from the deep integration of the financial industry and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, financial technology (fintech) has a significant impact on the progress of green total factor productivity (GTFP). Based on ci...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,878 Views
26 Pages

18 September 2024

In recent years, China’s environmental policies have continued to promote sustainable development, and listed companies have increased their environmental investment and strengthened their environmental social responsibility. Although there has...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,144 Views
18 Pages

Impact of Investment Climate on Total Factor Productivity of Manufacturing Firms in Vietnam

  • Mai Huong Giang,
  • Tran Dang Xuan,
  • Bui Huy Trung,
  • Mai Thanh Que and
  • Yuichiro Yoshida

17 December 2018

Investment climate has been acknowledged as a key factor that significantly influences economic performance. Improving the investment climate may foster the development of the private sector by creating sustainable jobs and opportunities for entrepre...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,755 Views
18 Pages

Does China–Europe Railway Express Improve Green Total Factor Productivity in China?

  • Xiao Wang,
  • Jiaojiao Li,
  • Jingming Shi,
  • Jia Li,
  • Jianxu Liu and
  • Songsak Sriboonchitta

15 May 2023

Based on the panel data of 284 prefecture-level cities in China from 2005 to 2019, this paper adopts a time-varying difference-in-differences model as a quasi-natural experiment to empirically test the impact and mechanism of the operation of the Chi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,294 Views
21 Pages

15 August 2024

As a judicial environmental regulation strategy designed to promote environmental protection, environmental courts have drawn substantial interest. However, whether they can effectively balance the economy and the environment requires further explora...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,995 Views
17 Pages

17 February 2024

Confronting the dual challenges of excessive resource consumption and environmental pollution, the traditional extensive economic development pattern significantly impeded the high-quality development of the Chinese economy. Examining variations in g...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,106 Views
16 Pages

23 November 2024

Because of increasing global complexities and the frequent occurrence of black swan events, the risk of supply chain disruptions intensifies, and the sustainability of enterprise development faces significant challenges. By focusing on supply chain s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
382 Views
30 Pages

Study on the Impact and Mechanism of Cultivated Land Transfer on Grain Green Total Factor Productivity in China

  • Pan Zhang,
  • Jiayi Zhang,
  • Suxin Hu,
  • Changjiang Ma,
  • Shasha Lu and
  • Xiankang Li

1 January 2026

Exploring the impact of cultivated land transfer on grain green total factor productivity is of great significance in promoting efficient and low-carbon utilization of arable land and green and high-quality development of grain production in China. B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
5,597 Views
20 Pages

27 January 2022

Agricultural mechanization is an important factor to improve the green total factor productivity of the planting industry, which is the key way to realize the sustainable development and high-quality development of agriculture. Based on the panel dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,919 Views
17 Pages

To explore the relationship between consumption upgrading and agricultural green total factor productivity in the context of green and high-quality development of agriculture in China. Based on the construction of a composite index of consumption upg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,770 Views
25 Pages

One of the remaining challenges in explaining differences in total factor productivity is heterogeneity between sectors and within a specific sector in terms of labor and capital. This paper employs the generalized method of moments (GMM) to identify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,233 Views
13 Pages

27 December 2021

This paper explores the impact of trade policy uncertainty (TPU) shock on China’s total factor productivity. Using economic panel data for China, OECD countries, Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR, and Singapore from the period 2003–2019, in this p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,606 Views
18 Pages

25 June 2023

The economy’s improvement through industrial success is also leading to environmental problems such as the production of greenhouse gases and other chemicals. Since global warming has caught the attention of researchers and authorities, environ...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,460 Views
16 Pages

29 April 2021

The application of intelligent technology has an important impact on the green total factor productivity of China’s manufacturing industry. Based on the provincial panel data of China’s manufacturing industry from 2008 to 2017, this article uses the...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,819 Views
25 Pages

The Impact of Climate Change on China’s Forestry Efficiency and Total Factor Productivity Change

  • Wasi Ul Hassan Shah,
  • Gang Hao,
  • Hong Yan,
  • Yuting Lu and
  • Rizwana Yasmeen

18 December 2023

The objective of this study is to examine the impact of climate change on forestry efficiency (FRE) and total factor productivity change (TFPC) in 31 provinces of China for a study period of 2001–2020. Additionally, the study aims to evaluate t...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,104 Views
13 Pages

1 June 2023

This paper focuses on the relationship between green credit and industrial green total factor productivity under the dual carbon target. In recent years, weather extremes that break historical extremes have occurred frequently around the world, and t...

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