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ibid.
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Giuseppe Iarossi, and Kenneth Sokoloff, “Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data” NBER Working Paper no. 8894 (2002). doi:10.3386/w8894.
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Giuseppe Iarossi, and Kenneth Sokoloff. “Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data” National Bureau of Economic Research , (April 2002). doi:10.3386/w8894.
Encarnación Moral-Pajares, Adoración Mozas-Moral, Enrique Bernal-Jurado, and Miguel Jesús Medina-Viruel, “Efficiency and Exports: Evidence from Southern European Companies,” Journal of Business Research 68, no. 7 (July 2015): 1506–1511.
Traiq Mahmood, Ejaz Ghani, and Musleh Ud Din, “Are Our Export-Oriented Industries Technically More Efficient?,” Pakistan Development Review 2, no. Summer (2015): 97–121, http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/2015/Volume2/97-121.pdf.
Coelli, Tim J. Coelli and George E. Battese, “Identification Of Factors Which Influence The Technical Inefficiency Of Indian Farmers,” Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics 40, no. 2 (August 1996): 103–128.
Ibid.
Paul Krugman, “Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade,” The American Economic Review 70, no. 5 (1980): 950–59.
Elhanan Helpman, “The Structure of Foreign Trade,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 1-13, no. 2 (1999): 121–44.
Abraham Charnes et al., “Foundations of Data Envelopment Analysis for Pareto-Koopmans Efficient Empirical Production Functions,” Journal of Econometrics 30, no. 1–2 (1985): 91–107
William W. Cooper, Lawrence M. Seiford, and Joe Zhu. “A Unified Additive Model Approach for Evaluating Inefficiency and Congestion with Associated Measures in DEA,” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 34, no. 1 (2000): 1–25.
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Cooper, William W., Lawrence M. Seiford, and Joe Zhu, eds. “Handbook on Data En velopment Analysis,” International Series in Operations Research & Management Scie nce (2011).
Harold O., Fried, C. A. Knox Lovell, and Shelton S. Schmidt, eds. “The Measuremen t of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change” (February 1, 2008).
Tjalling C. Koopmans, “Efficient Allocation of Resources,” Econometrica 19, no. 4 (1951): 455.
Gerard Debreu, “The Coefficient of Resource Utilization,” Econometrica 19, no. 3 (July 1951): 273.
R. D. Banker, A. Charnes, and W. W. Cooper, “Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis,” Management Science 30, no. 9 (September 1984): 1078–1092.
Coelli and Tese, “Identification of Factors Which Influence the Technical Inefficiency of Indian Farmers.” Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics , Vol. 40, No. 2 (August 1996), pp. 103–128
Zhong Qin, Vinod Mishra, and Smyth Russell, “An Empirical Examination of Endogenous Ownership in Chinese Private Enterprises,” Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 21, no. 4 (2016): 513–30.
Rizal Edy Halim, “Marketing Productivity and Profitability of Indonesian Public Listed Manufacturing Firms An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA),” Benchmarking: An International Journal 17, no. 6 (2010): 842–57,
Roberto Alvarez and Gustavo Crespi, “Determinants of Tehnical Efficiecny of Small Firms,” Small Business Economics 20, no. 3 (2003): 233–44.
Fukunari Kimura and Kozo Kiyota, “Foreign-owned versus Domestically-owned Firms: Economic Performance in Japan.,” Review of Development Economics 11, no. 1 (2007): 31–48.
Thi Bich Tran, R Quentin Grafton, and Tom Kompas, “Firm Efficiency in a Transitional Economy: Evidence from Vietnam,” Asian Economic Journal 22, no. 1 (2008): 47–66, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8381.2008.00268.x.
Dilling-Hansen et al., “‘Efficiency, R&D and Ownership–some Empirical Evidence.,’” International Journal of Production Economics 83, no. 1 (2003): 85–94.
Ehsan H. Feroz, And Sungsoo Kim, and Raymond L. Raab., “Financial Statement Analysis: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach,” The Journal of Operational Research Society 54, no. 1 (2013): 48–58.
Garrick Blalock and Paul J. Gertler, “‘Learning from Exporting Revisited in a Less Developed Setting,” Journal of Development Economics 75, no. 2 (2004): 397–416.
Alvarez and Crespi, “Determinants of Tehnical Efficiecny of Small Firms,” Small Business Economics 20, no. 3 (2003): 233–244.
Arun Kumaraswamy and Ram Mudambi, “Catch-up Strategies in the Indian Auto Components Industry: Domestic Firms’ Responses to Market Liberalization,” Journal of International Business Studies 43, no. 4 (2012): 368–95, https://doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2012.4
Abid A Burki and Dek Terrell, “‘Measuring Production Efficiency of Small Firms in Pakistan,’” World Development 26, no. 1 (1998): 155–69; Mahmood Ghani Ud Din, “Are Our Export-Oriented Industries Technically More Efficient?”; Mehran Ali Memon and Izah Mohd Tahir, “‘Performance Analysis of Manufacturing Companies in Pakistan,’” Business Management Dynamics 1, no. 7 (2012): 12–21.
Mahmood Ghani, and Ud Din, “Are Our Export-Oriented Industries Technically More Efficient?” Pakistan Development Review , no.2 (2015): 91–121.
A Granér Mats and Anders Isaksson, “‘Firm Efficiency and the Destination of Exports: Evidence from Kenyan Plant-level Data,’” The Developing Economies 47, no. 3 (2009): 279–306.
Coelli and Tese, “Identification of Factors Which Influence the Technical Inefficiency of Indian Farmers,” Australian Journal of Agriculture Economics 40, no. 2 (1996): 103–128.
Chuen Tse and Kuan Yew, “Procedia Computer Science Efficiency Assessment of Universities through Data Envelopment Analysis,” Procedia Computer Science 3 (2011): 499–506.
Charnes, A., W.W. Cooper, and E. Rhodes. “Measuring the Efficiency of Decision Making Units,” European Journal of Operational Research 2, no. 6 (November 1978): 429–444.
Adopted from Tim Coelli, “A Guide to Deap Version 2.1: A Data Envelopment Analysis (Computer) Program,” Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, University of New England, Australia (1996).
World Bank, Enterprises Surveys. http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/
Farooq, O., and S. E. Wasti, “Agriculture, Pakistan Economic Survey 2014–15,” Report by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan (2015). URL: http://finance.gov.pk/survey/chapters_15/02_Agricultre.pdf
Traiq Mahmood, Ejaz Ghani, and Musleh Ud Din, “Are Our Export-Oriented Industries Technically More Efficient?” Pakistan Development Review 2, no. Summer (2015): 97–121, http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/2015/Volume2/97-121.pdf; Tariq Mahmood Din, Musleh-ud, Ejaz Ghani, “‘Technical Efficiency of Pakistan's Manufacturing Sector: A Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analysis,’” The Pakistan Development Review 46, no.1 (2007):01–18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41260785.pdf
Marc Lavoie, “‘The Kaleckian Model of Growth and Distribution and Its Neo-Ricardian and Neo-Marxian Critiques,’” Cambridge Journal of Economics 19, no. 6 (1995): 789–818.
Mahmood Ghani, Ud Din, “Are Our Export-Oriented Industries Technically More Efficient? The Pakistan Development Review , (Summer 2015) pp. 97–121

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[1] Matthew Mccartney, “Pakistan, Growth, Dependency, and Crisis,” The Lahore Journal of Economics, (September 2011): 71–94, http://repec:lje:journl:v:16:y:2011:i:sp:p:71-94.

[2] ibid.

[3] Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Giuseppe Iarossi, and Kenneth Sokoloff, “Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data” NBER Working Paper no. 8894 (2002). doi:10.3386/w8894.

[4] Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Giuseppe Iarossi, and Kenneth Sokoloff. “Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data” National Bureau of Economic Research , (April 2002). doi:10.3386/w8894.

[5] Encarnación Moral-Pajares, Adoración Mozas-Moral, Enrique Bernal-Jurado, and Miguel Jesús Medina-Viruel, “Efficiency and Exports: Evidence from Southern European Companies,” Journal of Business Research 68, no. 7 (July 2015): 1506–1511.

[6] Traiq Mahmood, Ejaz Ghani, and Musleh Ud Din, “Are Our Export-Oriented Industries Technically More Efficient?,” Pakistan Development Review 2, no. Summer (2015): 97–121, http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/2015/Volume2/97-121.pdf.

[7] Coelli, Tim J. Coelli and George E. Battese, “Identification Of Factors Which Influence The Technical Inefficiency Of Indian Farmers,” Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics 40, no. 2 (August 1996): 103–128.

[8] Ibid.

[9] Paul Krugman, “Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade,” The American Economic Review 70, no. 5 (1980): 950–59.

[10] Elhanan Helpman, “The Structure of Foreign Trade,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 1-13, no. 2 (1999): 121–44.

[11] Abraham Charnes et al., “Foundations of Data Envelopment Analysis for Pareto-Koopmans Efficient Empirical Production Functions,” Journal of Econometrics 30, no. 1–2 (1985): 91–107

[12] William W. Cooper, Lawrence M. Seiford, and Joe Zhu. “A Unified Additive Model Approach for Evaluating Inefficiency and Congestion with Associated Measures in DEA,” Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 34, no. 1 (2000): 1–25.

[13] Fried, Harold O., C. A. Knox Lovell, and Shelton S. Schmidt, eds. The Measurement of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change (London: Oxford University Press, February 1, 2008).

[14] Cooper, William W., Lawrence M. Seiford, and Joe Zhu, eds. “Handbook on Data En velopment Analysis,” International Series in Operations Research & Management Scie nce (2011).

[15] Harold O., Fried, C. A. Knox Lovell, and Shelton S. Schmidt, eds. “The Measuremen t of Productive Efficiency and Productivity Change” (February 1, 2008).

[16] Tjalling C. Koopmans, “Efficient Allocation of Resources,” Econometrica 19, no. 4 (1951): 455.

[17] Gerard Debreu, “The Coefficient of Resource Utilization,” Econometrica 19, no. 3 (July 1951): 273.

[18] R. D. Banker, A. Charnes, and W. W. Cooper, “Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis,” Management Science 30, no. 9 (September 1984): 1078–1092.

[19] Coelli and Tese, “Identification of Factors Which Influence the Technical Inefficiency of Indian Farmers.” Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics , Vol. 40, No. 2 (August 1996), pp. 103–128

[20] Zhong Qin, Vinod Mishra, and Smyth Russell, “An Empirical Examination of Endogenous Ownership in Chinese Private Enterprises,” Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 21, no. 4 (2016): 513–30.

[21] Rizal Edy Halim, “Marketing Productivity and Profitability of Indonesian Public Listed Manufacturing Firms An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA),” Benchmarking: An International Journal 17, no. 6 (2010): 842–57,

[22] Roberto Alvarez and Gustavo Crespi, “Determinants of Tehnical Efficiecny of Small Firms,” Small Business Economics 20, no. 3 (2003): 233–44.

[23] Fukunari Kimura and Kozo Kiyota, “Foreign-owned versus Domestically-owned Firms: Economic Performance in Japan.,” Review of Development Economics 11, no. 1 (2007): 31–48.

[24] Thi Bich Tran, R Quentin Grafton, and Tom Kompas, “Firm Efficiency in a Transitional Economy: Evidence from Vietnam,” Asian Economic Journal 22, no. 1 (2008): 47–66, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8381.2008.00268.x.

[25] Dilling-Hansen et al., “‘Efficiency, R&D and Ownership–some Empirical Evidence.,’” International Journal of Production Economics 83, no. 1 (2003): 85–94.

[26] Ehsan H. Feroz, And Sungsoo Kim, and Raymond L. Raab., “Financial Statement Analysis: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach,” The Journal of Operational Research Society 54, no. 1 (2013): 48–58.

[27] Garrick Blalock and Paul J. Gertler, “‘Learning from Exporting Revisited in a Less Developed Setting,” Journal of Development Economics 75, no. 2 (2004): 397–416.

[28] Alvarez and Crespi, “Determinants of Tehnical Efficiecny of Small Firms,” Small Business Economics 20, no. 3 (2003): 233–244.

[29] Arun Kumaraswamy and Ram Mudambi, “Catch-up Strategies in the Indian Auto Components Industry: Domestic Firms’ Responses to Market Liberalization,” Journal of International Business Studies 43, no. 4 (2012): 368–95, https://doi.org/10.1057/jibs.2012.4

[30] Abid A Burki and Dek Terrell, “‘Measuring Production Efficiency of Small Firms in Pakistan,’” World Development 26, no. 1 (1998): 155–69; Mahmood Ghani Ud Din, “Are Our Export-Oriented Industries Technically More Efficient?”; Mehran Ali Memon and Izah Mohd Tahir, “‘Performance Analysis of Manufacturing Companies in Pakistan,’” Business Management Dynamics 1, no. 7 (2012): 12–21.

[31] Mahmood Ghani, and Ud Din, “Are Our Export-Oriented Industries Technically More Efficient?” Pakistan Development Review , no.2 (2015): 91–121.

[32] A Granér Mats and Anders Isaksson, “‘Firm Efficiency and the Destination of Exports: Evidence from Kenyan Plant-level Data,’” The Developing Economies 47, no. 3 (2009): 279–306.

[33] Coelli and Tese, “Identification of Factors Which Influence the Technical Inefficiency of Indian Farmers,” Australian Journal of Agriculture Economics 40, no. 2 (1996): 103–128.

[34] Chuen Tse and Kuan Yew, “Procedia Computer Science Efficiency Assessment of Universities through Data Envelopment Analysis,” Procedia Computer Science 3 (2011): 499–506.

[35] Charnes, A., W.W. Cooper, and E. Rhodes. “Measuring the Efficiency of Decision Making Units,” European Journal of Operational Research 2, no. 6 (November 1978): 429–444.

[36] Adopted from Tim Coelli, “A Guide to Deap Version 2.1: A Data Envelopment Analysis (Computer) Program,” Centre for Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, University of New England, Australia (1996).

[37] World Bank, Enterprises Surveys. http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/

[38] Farooq, O., and S. E. Wasti, “Agriculture, Pakistan Economic Survey 2014–15,” Report by Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan (2015). URL: http://finance.gov.pk/survey/chapters_15/02_Agricultre.pdf

[39] Traiq Mahmood, Ejaz Ghani, and Musleh Ud Din, “Are Our Export-Oriented Industries Technically More Efficient?” Pakistan Development Review 2, no. Summer (2015): 97–121, http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/2015/Volume2/97-121.pdf; Tariq Mahmood Din, Musleh-ud, Ejaz Ghani, “‘Technical Efficiency of Pakistan's Manufacturing Sector: A Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analysis,’” The Pakistan Development Review 46, no.1 (2007):01–18. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41260785.pdf

[40] Marc Lavoie, “‘The Kaleckian Model of Growth and Distribution and Its Neo-Ricardian and Neo-Marxian Critiques,’” Cambridge Journal of Economics 19, no. 6 (1995): 789–818.

[41] Mahmood Ghani, Ud Din, “Are Our Export-Oriented Industries Technically More Efficient? The Pakistan Development Review , (Summer 2015) pp. 97–121