The Impact of Policy Reforms on Labour Productivity, Price Cost Margin and Total Factor Productivity: The Nepalese Experience

South Asia Economic Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-68

  Sharma, Kishor ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

(JEL: E13; 041) Keywords: Liberalization; F43; Labour Productivity; Nepal; Total Factor Productivity Growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993736228     PISSN: 13915614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/139156140400500103     Document Type: Article

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