impact on physics productivity. To achieve that goal, we used the model of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is based on …, increasing inequality regional furniture industry, but this efficiency fall has been accompanied by an increase in productivity. … de Análise Envoltória de Dados (DEA), que se baseia em programação matemática. Como insumos foram utilizados pessoal …

We analyze the evolution of Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) over the past 45 years … of poor performance and decline. That recovery is the consequence of improved efficiency in production resulting from …

longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency … of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in … firm efficiency occurs across almost all industries and firm types: large or small; state or private; domestic or foreign …

theproductivity of new technologies and, in addition, by the efficiency with whichtechnologies are used (technical efficiency) and … output and inputs are combined(economic efficiency). This study estimates the technical and economic efficiency ofseven … envelopment analysis (DEA) and investigatesboth the drivers and implications of inefficiency differentials. In terms of drivers …

perform an ex-ante analysis of the efficiency ofwater pricing policies, based on a two stage DEA technique, by which it is … improvement of the use efficiency of the water resources in the agriculturalsector. For this purpose, we suggest a methodology to … possible to disaggregatethe technical and the ecological efficiency of the policy. According to our results, we found that …

This paper examines the issue of labor productivity in hotels. It elaborates on various measurement methods used by … American hoteliers including staffing guides, with a special focus on productivity standards. Advantages of physical, financial …

efficiency change has been invariant to the treatment of the undesirable output as input. The average productivity growth is 2 … efficiency under strong disposability and weak disposability and a modified output oriented Malmquist index. The graph measure of … technical efficiency accounting for undesirable outputs reveals that regulations of agriculture GHG emission would be effective …

The geopressured zone, assuming the presence of natural gas and high water productivity, may be used to produce … 63?/M Btu and a unit power cost of 46 mills/kwh. The conversion efficiency of the plant, including hydraulic turbine … energy from the well head overpressure, was 10.3%. This low efficiency accounts for the high unit power cost. A one-well, 1 …

efficiency to free existing staff time to develop additional types of data from our partners. Another long-term theme related to … expanding data coverage to estimates of productivity and/or data needed to calculate productivity. Initial investigations within …

economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder … efficiency components and a two-limit Tobit model is used to derive efficiency indices as a function of a vector of socio … efficiency is 0.39 with a range of 0.12 - 0.66. Education, access to extension, access to credit and membership in a farmers …