in the South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. For the efficiency analysis we used non parametric … returns to scale. The technical efficiency figures for Pakistan, Bangladesh and India are 0.395, 0.087, and 0.28, respectively … assumption in these countries. Out of these efficient MFIs three -Annesa, BARC and Grameen Bank, belong to Bangladesh, and two …

. which attracted more and more customers using the banking’ services; the efficiency of the banking system also has been … increasing. So far, there is still a lack of research on the efficiency of the banking sector in Vietnam over the decades … front gate. This paper, which focuses on evaluating the efficiency of bigger sample size of Vietnamese commercial banks in …

By this paper we intend to analyze the existing gap in the efficiency of R&D investment, at European level. The method … terms of technical efficiency (TE) thus constitutes the main goal of this research. Small European economies (i.e. Luxemburg … and Sweden) have high levels of research efficiency, while some of the larger ones, namely, United Kingdom, France, and …

technical efficiency of Basic Health Units (BHUs) in Sargodha by using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) with the choice of … inputs and outputs being specific to BHUs operation. DEA model results reveals that the mean technical efficiency under …, Constant Returns to Scale (CRS) and Variable Returns to Scale (VRS) was 0.719 and 0.807 while the mean scale efficiency was 0 …

more to technological change than technical efficiency change. Sample data showed that devaluation of Cfa franc have had a …

investigating for the first time, both cost and profit efficiency of full-fledged Islamic banks and Islamic window operations of … domestic and foreign banks. The application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique has provided several efficiency … measures such as allocative, pure technical and scale efficiency that explain cost and profit efficiency differentials among …

This paper aims to estimate technical and scale efficiency in the Italian citrus farming. Estimation was carried out … Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model, respectively. Several studies have compared technical efficiency estimates derived from … parametric and non parametric approaches, while a very small number of studies have aimed to compare scale efficiency obtained …

An extended quality-driven efficiency-adjusted data envelopment analysis (QE-DEA) method is developed to measure the … performance of service units. Performance is measured based on efficiency and users’ satisfaction. The extended QE-DEA method … identifies as benchmarks only units that are qualified both in efficiency and satisfaction and ensures that all of the units will …

’ efficiency. A deficiency of DEA is that the efficiency scores assigned to each firm are sensitive to sampling variations … is limited compared to the number of inputs and output. As a result, in case of small samples, DEA efficiency scores … efficiency scores with stochastic properties. However, the DEA Bootstrap is still inappropriate in the presence of small samples …

technique, for the purpose of studying differences in efficiency and technology gap across different regions of the continent … average technical efficiency score of the agricultural sector has been almost stable over time, while a marginal decrease of …