productivity which, it argues, meets both externally imposed cost-efficiency requirements and clients' needs for service …The introduction of efficiency improvements and enterprise bargaining into local authorities has been severely hampered … by a failure to agree on a method of measuring service productivity. This paper develops an outcomes measure of …

In this chapter, William Watson challenges Heath's interpretation of the benefits of productivity growth, but agrees … productivity growth. Watson tackles Heath's assessment of the social benefits of productivity growth directly, starting with the … believes that the case for higher productivity would remain compelling. Without powerful analytical guidance, Watson concludes …

Increased productivity is a key to a healthy and thriving economy. Consequently, the trend in productivity, economywide … very successful sector of the U.S. economy in terms of productivity growth. The U.S. farm sector has provided an abundance … of output while using inputs efficiently. Agricultural productivity growth has been an important source of U.S. economic …

This study measures efficiency differences and productivity changes of Finnish municipalities providing comprehensive … decreased the costs. The productivity of the comprehensive schools decreased on average 12 percent during the period. The … productivity decrease whereas the increase in school size clearly enhanced productivity. …

productivity growth of the knowledge-intensive information and communication technology (ICT) equipment industry in Finland …

measure economic efficiency and total productivity changes, respectively. The data involves 65 observations from a complete …

productivity is decomposed into technological change, efficiency and quality-environmental change. Additionally, the correlation of …The object of the present paper is to analyse productivity incorporating quality-environmental changes in marketing co … vegetables sector. Secondly, the productivity trend is studied empirically using nonparametric methods (Malmquist indices) and …

In this chapter by Janice Stein warns about the dangers of adopting a narrow conception of productivity and efficiency … efficiency or productivity of a public service requires a measurement of the value or utility generated by the service. However …. Building on her analysis in The Cult of Efficiency, she argues that the language of efficiency, understood narrowly as cost …

gains in efficiency and productivity due to competitive pressure, and its distributional effects using a general equilibrium … has a positive effect on efficiency, productivity and poverty, but an adverse effect on the income distribution in the …

This paper examines the monthly efficiency and productivity of listed Indonesian banks and their market performance … through the prism of two modelling techniques, efficiency and super-efficiency, over the period January 2006 to July 2007 …. Within this research strategy we employ Tone’s (2001) non-parametric, Slacks-Based Model (SBM) and Tone’s (2002) super-efficiency …