This study examines technical efficiency and productivity growth of Greek livestock farms participating in the 1994 … approach developed by Simar and Wilson (1998a, b) to bootstrapping both DEA efficiency measures and Malmquist productivity … and Lovell (1997) to investigate the sources of productivity change. The technical efficiency score results indicate that …

The study is devoted to the measurement of productivity and efficiency change in Chinese farming sector over the reform … process in the 1980s and 1990s. Within an output distance function framework, an index of total factor productivity is … that during the more market-oriented reform period in the mid 1980s productivity and technical efficiency increased while …