As far as I can see, total factor productivity in China is quite good.

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More progress requires higher total factor productivity (TFP) growth and thus more progress on governance.

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Most of the growth, in employment, in new products, in total factor productivity, and thus in living standards comes not from extant companies continuing to invest.

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Total factor productivity, which measures how efficiently labour and capital are combined, is only 42% of the level in America, or 82% that in South Korea.

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Between 1986 and 1991, total factor productivity the increase in output due to more efficient use of inputs such as labour and capital in Taiwan's electrical-machinery industry rose 23.6%.

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The ease with which companies are born and fail is clearly one reason why Taiwan's total factor productivity has improved faster than that of all other Asian countries since 1960.

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The good news is that companies still have plenty of scope to boost productivity by reorganising their businesses to use information technology more efficiently, which could yet boost growth in total factor productivity.

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From a total factor productivity standpoint, a guide post used by economists to measure capital investment in an economy, Brazil grew 1.2 percent over the last 8 years ending 2010, while Mexico grew just 0.1 percent.

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