Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has become a practicable approach to evaluate the relative efficiencies of decision-making units (DMUs) in various contexts. This paper conducted a DEA study to measure the relative efficiencies of 13 Credit Department of Farmers¡¦ Associations (CDFAs) of...

Governments, businesses and other interested parties have taken various steps to bridge the digital divide. Some countries, particularly those in the Asia-Pacific region, have made national plans. Initially, most of their efforts were devoted to increasing the level of connectivity in rural...

Although at the country and industry level there is much evidence on the importance of access to services for exports and participation in global value chains, such evidence is largely absent at the firm level. In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset that connects city-level access to...