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Special Issue: Efficiency, Productivity and Economic Growth in Africa

The Journal of Productivity Analysis is excited to announce a forthcoming Special Issue on Efficiency, Productivity and Economic Growth in Africa. This special issue will be a symposium dedicated to research in this area.

Editors

  • Almas Heshmati

    Dr. Almas Heshmati is Professor of Economics at the Jönköping University (Sweden). He has a Ph.D. degree from the University of Gothenburg (1994), where he held a Senior Researcher position until 1998. His research interests include agricultural economics, development economics, energy economics, industrial organization, labor, globalization, income distribution, productivity, efficiency, growth, health care and capital structure. He is member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Panel Data.

  • Christopher Parmeter

    Dr. Christopher F. Parmeter is an internationally recognized scholar in nonmarket valuation and nonparametric analysis. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Miami. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton. His research focuses on applied econometrics across a broad array of fields in economics including economic growth, microfinance, international trade, environmental economics and health economics.

  • Robin Sickles

    Dr. Robin Sickles is the Reginald Henry Hargrove Professor of Economics, a Joint Professor at the Department of Statistics at Rice University, and an Adjunct Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine. Professor Sickles is also the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and has served as associate editor of Journal of Applied Econometrics, Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Econometrics, and Empirical Economics. His research interests center around applied economics and empirical measurement of productivity.

Articles

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