This study examined changes in agricultural productivity at Benin in the context of diverse institutional arrangements … information was for a 43-year period (1961-2003); DEA method was used to measure Malquist index of total factor productivity to … evaluate technical change efficiency and technological efficiency change across the country’s 12 provinces. A decomposition of …

estimation is possible of changes in total factor productivity on farms in the different regions. The major findings are that …. Variation in technical efficiency seems to depend on the harshness of the production environment and whether consultancy advice …

distance function both with and without pollutant outputs. The environmentally sensitive approach provides higher productivity … the regional levels of technical efficiency. …

between capital use and energy productivity in many industries indicates that energy use efficiency may be augmented by …A report by the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Energy Efficiency (July 2010) emphasised the need for improved energy … efficiency as a response to climate change to ensure a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from energy consumption in Australia …

The technical and allocative efficiency of broadacre farmers in a southern region of Western Australia is investigated … some inefficiency in each year, which decreases over time. The distributions of technical efficiency in each year are … positively skewed toward higher efficiency levels, indicating a majority of farms produce close to their maximum technical …

We extend data envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency of a sample of ethanol plants into … because they can secure more favorable prices (higher marketing efficiency) and execute production plans accordingly (higher … allocative efficiency). This may rationalize the increase in the size of the average plant observed in the industry in recent …

envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency of plants into conventional sources (technical and allocative … efficiency) and a new component we call marketing efficiency. The latter measure allows us to evaluate plants’ ability to …

In this paper we analyse the technical efficiency of cotton farmers in the Punjab Province in Pakistan. Technical … efficiency is measured relative to a stochastic frontier production function (SFPF). The estimated model includes a function in … which technical efficiency is made an explicit function of firm specific factors (involving the levels of education and …

bootstrapped truncated regression shows that efficiency differences between two regions are explained by the timely availability of … the water to a significant extent. We suggest that future sectoral policies should be designed to address the efficiency …

A balanced panel of data is used to estimate technical efficiency, employing a fixed-effects stochastic frontier … specification for wool producers in Australia. Both point estimates and confidence intervals for technical efficiency are reported … Schmidt (2000). The confidence intervals make explicit the precision of the technical efficiency estimates and underscore the …