Social inclusion is one of the key challenges of the European Union (EU) Sustainable Development Strategy. We use four indicators from EU policies to measure social inclusion for the 27 member countries of Europe. In particular, we aggregate the four indicators in a multiplicative composite...

We use a stochastic frontier production model to estimate the technical efficiency of the 21 more industrialized countries in the world for the wide period from 1966 to 2007. A Cobb-Douglas function with labour and capital as inputs, GDP as output and an efficiency term with exponential...

<em>Economic disparities and context variables. A non-parametric analysis for Italian regions</em> Objectives The paper provides a ranking of performance scores, originated by indicators of economic and social context, in order to compare the position of each region relative to the others over the period...

<i> Infrastrutture e divari regionali di produttività. Una rassegna critica </i> (di Erasmo Vassallo) - ABSTRACT: In the contest of the relationship about economic development, productivity and infrastructures, this paper presents a critical revue of empirical literature and econometric models. This...