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Measuring technical efficiency in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector: a two-stage DEA Tobit approach
This paper measures and explains efficiency of firms in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector. The paper uses a panel of 166 firms from 6 subsectors of the manufacturing sector in the financial year 2014. The Data envelopment analysis program is used to measure efficiency and identify its determinants. Ex...
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| author | Dube, Rebecca |
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| description | This paper measures and explains efficiency of firms in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector. The paper uses a panel of 166 firms from 6 subsectors of the manufacturing sector in the financial year 2014. The Data envelopment analysis program is used to measure efficiency and identify its determinants. Exporting, labour quality, size and firm age were found to enhance productivity. Efficiency was found to significantly vary with location with firms in Bulawayo being more efficient. This paper found no evidence of a relationship between foreign ownership and manufacturing productivity in Zimbabwe. By identifying factors that affect efficiency as well as measuring their impact on manufacturing efficiency this paper answers the bigger policy question: how to reindustrialise Zimbabwe following two decades of economic recession. Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector exhibits strong backward and forward linkages with other sectors of the economy. These interlinkages make manufacturing sector productivity growth relevant to the resuscitation and growth of the economy. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/33719 Measuring technical efficiency in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector: a two-stage DEA Tobit approach Dube, Rebecca Conradie, Beatrice Economics This paper measures and explains efficiency of firms in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector. The paper uses a panel of 166 firms from 6 subsectors of the manufacturing sector in the financial year 2014. The Data envelopment analysis program is used to measure efficiency and identify its determinants. Exporting, labour quality, size and firm age were found to enhance productivity. Efficiency was found to significantly vary with location with firms in Bulawayo being more efficient. This paper found no evidence of a relationship between foreign ownership and manufacturing productivity in Zimbabwe. By identifying factors that affect efficiency as well as measuring their impact on manufacturing efficiency this paper answers the bigger policy question: how to reindustrialise Zimbabwe following two decades of economic recession. Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector exhibits strong backward and forward linkages with other sectors of the economy. These interlinkages make manufacturing sector productivity growth relevant to the resuscitation and growth of the economy. 2021-08-06T09:01:23Z 2021-08-06T09:01:23Z 2021 2021-08-06T07:55:42Z Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33719 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce |
| spellingShingle | Economics Dube, Rebecca Measuring technical efficiency in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector: a two-stage DEA Tobit approach |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Measuring technical efficiency in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector: a two-stage DEA Tobit approach |
| title_full | Measuring technical efficiency in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector: a two-stage DEA Tobit approach |
| title_fullStr | Measuring technical efficiency in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector: a two-stage DEA Tobit approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measuring technical efficiency in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector: a two-stage DEA Tobit approach |
| title_short | Measuring technical efficiency in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector: a two-stage DEA Tobit approach |
| title_sort | measuring technical efficiency in zimbabwe s manufacturing sector a two stage dea tobit approach |
| topic | Economics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33719 |
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