approach consists in evaluating the effect on the manufacturing sector of an improvement in efficiency on electricity …

remain highly fragmented, small, illiquid and technologically weak, severely affecting their informational efficiency …. Therefore, this study attempts to empirically ascertain whether African stock markets can improve their informational efficiency … of statistically significant weak form informational efficiency of the African continent-wide share price indices over …

, methodological and practical challenges to measure the efficiency performances of public intuitions are visited. Subsequently … incentive schemes and efficiency. …

approaches to efficiency assessment in the context of DEA (two-stage DEA) are the simple (or independent), the multiplicative and … efficiency and the individual efficiencies for the two stages independently with typical DEA models. The other two approaches … efficiency to the efficiencies of the individual stages. This paper presents an alternative approach to additive efficiency …

The purpose of the current study was to estimate efficiency of health systems in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and to compare … efficiency estimates from various time-varying frontier models. The study used data for 45 countries in SSA from 2005 to 2011 … controllable input. The results show some variations in efficiency estimates among the various models. Estimates from the ‘true …

Improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of supply-side waste management are necessary in many countries. In …-management efficiency. In this study, we measure the efficiency of waste management and explore how technology is related to technical … efficiency. We find that municipalities are likely to adopt less-efficient technologies and that the central government …

In this paper we propose an innovative approach based on life satisfaction to estimate efficiency measures for … (e.g. age, marital status, religion or unemployment) also have a significant impact on efficiency measures. …

inefficiency. This paper argues that competition policy in both Japan and Korea was oriented towards creating dynamic efficiency …

used to measure the level of competitiveness and efficiency of banking activity. The results show that domestic banks …