. ------------------------------------------ The essence of modern agriculture are the economical and ecological efficiency, the quality and quantity, the healthy food …

The measurement of the efficiency of public education expenditure using parametric and non-parametric methods has … the efficiency of secondary education spending in emerging and developing economies. The approach accounts for the impact … of the level of development on education outcomes by constructing different efficiency frontiers for lower- and higher …

improving the situation of organizations such as, workforce planning, increased efficiency and effectiveness of managers in …

This paper examines the relationship between efficiency and default risk in Islamic banks (IBs) and Conventional banks … (CBs) in Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) and three Non-GCC countries over the period 2002-2010. Efficiency and default …) framework. Our analysis shows that the relationship between profit efficiency and default risk banks across the sample, CBs and …

and immediately after the 2008 financial crisis (2004-2009). There is no significant difference in mean efficiency between … conventional and Islamic banks when efficiency is measured relative to a common frontier. A meta-frontier analysis (MFA), new to … efficiency frontier for Islamic banks typically lies inside the frontier for conventional banks, suggesting that the Islamic …

This paper estimates the efficiency of students in English universities using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a new … students differ in terms of the efficiency with which they use inputs in producing good degrees. In a second stage, we explore … the determinants of the efficiency of university students using a truncated regression model. Higher student efficiency is …

This paper examines the relationship between efficiency and default risk in Islamic banks (IBs) and Conventional banks … (CBs) in Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) and three Non-GCC countries over the period 2002-2010. Efficiency and default …) framework. Our analysis shows that the relationship between profit efficiency and default risk banks across the sample, CBs and …

techniques to estimate an output distance function over the period 1997/97 to 2007/08 in order to investigate the efficiency of … higher education institutions (HEIs) and to examine the opportunities for substitution between inputs. Mean efficiency across … institution in the highest efficiency quartile is closest to the pattern of production of the average pre-1992 university. The …

the empirical application of the efficiency and effectiveness of the ICT at the regional (NUTS 2) level in the EU is … by a relatively low efficiency rate of transforming information society progress into educational outputs …