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Abstract
A number of studies have shown that longterm economic growth and sustainable economic developments are mainly due to the productivity growth. This study employs data covering more than 15,000 manufacturing companies in Ho Chi Minh City during the period 2000-2009 to calculate the Total Factor Productivity of 48 3-digit VSIC industries belonging to the six major industries including Foods and Beverage, Garment, Chemical, Electronics and Communication, Building materials, and Mechanical industries. It is found that the concerns for environment protection and the industry size have positive impacts on the TFP growth while tax burden and capital intensity have negative impacts. The degree of foreign firms’ involvement and the industry concentration are found not to have any impacts on the TFP growth.
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Hung Nhu Duong
University of Technology, VNU-HCM -
Hung Huy Lai
University of Technology, VNU-HCM -
Ha Hai Ngan Nguyen
University of Technology, VNU-HCM -
Giang Thi Hang Le
University of Technology, VNU-HCM -
Yen Hai Hua
University of Technology, VNU-HCM
Issue: Vol 16 No 2 (2013)
Page No.: 16-24
Published: Jun 30, 2013
Section: Economics, Law and Management - Research article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32508/stdj.v16i2.1469
Copyright: The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0., which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
