Analysis technical efficiency, technological gap and total factor productivity of Vietnamese textile and garment industries
Analysis technical efficiency, technological gap and total factor productivity of Vietnamese textile and garment industries
The study used meta- frontier framework, data envelopment analysis approach and the global Malmquist total factor productivity index to analyse technical efficiency and productivity change as well as its components of Vietnamese textile and garment firms during 2013-2015. The results show that: (i) The total factor productivity of Vietnamese textile and garment firms fell in the period 2013-2015, and technical change is the main reason to constraint productivity growth. (ii) The private garment