Based on the Annual Survey of Industries two-digit level data for the years 1973-74 and 1993-1994, discusses the … changing pattern of labour productivity, labour costs and total factor productivity. …

innovations in Sri Lanka - based on a sample survey, discusses the effects of farm size, tenancy, farmer age, education, etc., on … productivity, profits and tractor and labour use; examines the access to green revolution technology, agricultural credit …, fertilizer and agricultural markets; includes agricultural policy suggestions. Bibliography. …

This paper, by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Malmquist Productivity Index, addresses the impacts of 2007 … global financial crisis on the efficiency and productivity of Turkish banks, during 2003-2010 periods. Moreover, a risk … literature by applying some of the remarkable methods suggested to improve DEA efficiency and productivity estimates altogether …

Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost …-efficiency is regressed on explanatory variables. No evidence is found for average productivity responding to deregulation over the …

change in productivity of the Local Health Trust (LHT) in directly managed Italian hospitals. We will also explore whether …-Malmquist index are used to derive technical efficiency, and changes in productivity and efficiency, for directly managed hospitals in … efficiency analysis, has hospital individual relevance. The Malmquist index reveals productivity improvement for 7 out of the 8 …

In this study, the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in the US truckload (TL) carriers is … index is used to study the productivity changes in the US TL carriers. The window analysis results reveal that the average …, allows productivity changes to be decomposed into two categories: technical efficiency changes, and technological changes …

This paper examines the technical efficiency and productivity of 81 firms of the Indian pharmaceutical industry. The … study found that technical efficiency and productivity are higher in the product patent regime than in the process patent … regime. The analysis of Malmquist productivity index indicates that despite regression in technical change, firms …