We developed a technical efficiency analysis of container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean using an input … highly significant in the production function. The results show an improvement in the average technical efficiency of ports … achieved a technical efficiency of 94%with respect to the frontier. The paper also studies possible determinants of port …

This paper develops a port productivity and efficiency analysis of all developing regions between 2000 and 2010, using …, and 1,750 data points-, we carry out an analysis of the evolution and drivers of productivity and efficiency changes … heterogeneity is explained by pure efficiency changes rather than scale efficiency of technological changes. Therefore, we carry out …

This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …

We examine the efficiency gains in health systems generated after the national roll out of basic healthcare in El …-specialized health workers improves efficiency, maintaining quality of care. …