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Results of assessments of total labor factor productivity TFP showed improvements where it recorded higher rate of 73 …
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Cotton is one of the most important sector for developing countries, especially in Pakistan. In this paper the linear model based on data of 2004 to 2006 cotton yield is developed to maximize the cotton production of Pakistan. In this model variables are allowed to randomly vary with in interval...
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This paper evaluates the performance of the metalworking sector in Colombia, between 1998 and 2007, using stochastic frontier techniques (SFA), which, through the estimation of the deviations from an ideal function of costs, measure levels economic efficiency of various production units. The...
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Forest fuel defined as branches and tops (GROT) of harvested trees represents a large share of forest biomass and is increasingly viewed as a potential energy source. This study assesses the economic potentials of forest bioenergy production in Swedish forests, using a network data envelopment...
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To insure a proper and meaningful productivity assessment of DMUs with different production technologies, this article … develops a difference-based profit metafrontier Luenberger productivity indicator. Adopting the proposed model, we empirically … measure the profit inefficiency and examine the profit productivity convergence for samples banks consisting of 31 Taiwanese …
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A major feature of healthcare systems is substantial variation in hospital productivity. Productivity widely varies … across NHS hospitals. This research investigates factors that may explain variations in hospital productivity. We employ a …
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This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
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the traditional (desirable-output-oriented) technical productivity and the undesirable-output-oriented environmental, or … so-called "green", productivity. To measure the latter, we derive a Solow-type Divisia environmental productivity index … which, unlike conventional productivity indices, allows crediting the ceteris paribus reduction in undesirable outputs. Our …
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Productivity and efficiency are key performance indicators of improved seeds. Efficiency differences explain part of … the variation in productivity. Improved seeds may affect efficiency because farmers often do not apply inputs at optimum …. Improved seeds therefore not only directly affect productivity but also indirectly through efficiency. If productivity and …
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Exploring and explaining development gaps between countries is an important theoretical and empirical task. This paper presents empirical studies related to economic growth and its determinants across countries, based on the use of data envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance...
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