Table 2.

Descriptive statistics of the variables

VARIABLES	Observation	Mean	Std. Dev	Min	Max
TFP	1092	0.72	1.19	− 6.21	2.09
GINI	1092	0.61	0.09	0.41	0.94
TRADE	1092	0.57	1.44	0.00	0.69
HIV/AIDS	1092	0.17	0.98	0.00	0.69
EDUCATION	1092	0.57	0.89	0.21	0.43
$\mathrm{\Delta }$ TFP	1040	0.18	0.23	− 0.37	2.48
$\mathrm{\Delta }$ GINI	1040	0.01	0.08	− 0.36	0.38
$\mathrm{\Delta }$ TRADE	1040	0.02	1.03	− 6.95	6.95
$\mathrm{\Delta }$ HIV/AIDS	1040	0.01	0.79	− 6.98	3.40
$\mathrm{\Delta }$ EDUCATION	1040	0.11	0.59	− 1.17	5.70

Source: Authors’ own calculation