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Hamed M. Alhoshan حمد بن محمد الحوشان

Associate Professor

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Building 67, 2ed floor, Office No. s/185 . • P.O. Box 71115, Riyadh 11587.
المنشورات
مقال فى مجلة
2012
تم النشر فى:

Sectoral Productivity Growth in Saudi Arabia

H., Alhoshan, . 2012

The purpose of this paper is to analyses the productivity growth performance of the different sectors of the Saudi economy.  In particular, this paper tries to look at the following questions:
(1) What does productivity growth performance look like in the different sectors of the economy? (2) What are the relative contribution labor and capital to sectoral growth?
(3) What policy suggestions could be made to enhance productivity growth and increase its role in the overall economic growth and diversification of the economic base of the Saudi economy?  
For this task, it estimated a CDS production function using different samples over the period 1995-2008.  The main findings are that TFP is significant and positive in most of the sectors considered.  Further, it varies between sectors, but in general it is in the range of 3% to 6%.    
In addition, the estimation results indicated that that growth of TFP contribution to output growth in these sectors growth is in general very low, and the sectoral output growth is dominated more by the growth of capital and labor inputs.  
 

رقم المجلد
3
رقم الانشاء
6
الصفحات
435 to 445
مزيد من المنشورات
publications

In this paper we investigate the causality and co-integration between inventory investment and various types of Saudi Arabia’s GDP.  Saudi Arabia is an oil-based economy; therefore its total GDP…

بواسطة Alhoshan, Hamed, and Abdullah Alshebel
2014
publications

This study specifies a modified version of the monetary approach to the balance of payments (MABP) model with free capital flow and fixed exchange rates for Saudi Arabia, and tests the…

بواسطة Akkina, K., Alhoshan, H.
2003
publications

Using A vector auto-regression approach (VAR), this paper  mainly studys the effect of the government domestic expenditure, and other variables, on the behavior of the private consumption in Saudi…

بواسطة الحوشان، ح. م
2002