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Efficiency of rice farming households in Vietnam

Hoang Linh, Vu - In: International Journal of Development Issues 11 (2012) 1, pp. 60-73

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate technical efficiency obtained from both data envelopment analysis …/methodology/approach – A bootstrap method is used to provide statistical precision of the DEA estimator. Technical efficiency is modeled as a … approaches indicate that among other things, technical efficiency is significantly influenced by primary education and regional …

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Technical efficiency of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs)

Gebremichael, Bereket Zerai; Gessesse, Hailemichael Tesfay - In: International Journal of Development Issues 15 (2016) 3, pp. 224-239

Purpose The paper aims to evaluate the technical efficiency of African Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and examine if … analysis (SFA) assuming that the translog production functions to estimate the technical efficiency of 134 Microfinance … efficiency for the sample institutions is 0.489, which is quite low and suggests that on average, African MFIs are achieving only …

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Productivity and efficiency of labour intensive manufacturing industries in India

Parida, Purna Chandra; Pradhan, Kailash Chandra - In: International Journal of Development Issues 15 (2016) 2, pp. 130-152

) and technical efficiency for both labour intensive and all manufacturing industries during the pre- and post …

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Electricity industry reforms in Thailand: an analysis of productivity

Wattana, Supannika; Sharma, Deepak - In: International Journal of Energy Sector Management 5 (2011) 4, pp. 494-521

method enables the decomposition of productivity changes into technical and efficiency changes, and hence enables one to … determine if changes in productivity are due to electricity reform (efficiency gains) or due to autonomous technological … productivity and efficiency, by applying the DEA method to a time series data for a single industry. Additionally, the analysis of …

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Evaluation of MGNREGA: data envelopment analysis approach

Natesan, Sarabjeet D.; Marathe, Rahul Ratnakar - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 2, pp. 181-194

Purpose How can efficiency of a welfare scheme be measured? The purpose of this paper is to develop an efficiency … evaluation model, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) implementation efficiency model (MIEM), to … (DEA) to compare relative efficiency of MGNREGA implementing states. It uses policy implementation process as a central …

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Cost efficiency among rice millers in Southwest Nigeria

Adeyemi, Busayo Bidemi; Okoruwa, Victor Olusegun; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 12, pp. 2450-2465

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the efficiency of rice millers and determine factors influencing cost … efficiency in Southwest Nigeria using the cost route approach. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses cost efficiency of … efficiency of the millers was obtained using the quadratic cost function analysis, and Tobit regression was used to determine …

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Effective supervision of Islamic insurance according to Malaysian experience (1984-2012)

Berkem, Zoheir - In: International Journal of Social Economics 41 (2014) 12, pp. 1220-1242

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to know the method adopted by the Malaysian supervisor to regulate the Takaful sector, and to propose a new approach related to the effective supervision. Design/methodology/approach – The key approach in this paper is a case study over a clear period...

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Determining the optimal allocation of time among work, sports, internet use, and sleep

Ben David, Nissim; Tur-Sinai, Aviad - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 12, pp. 2067-2085

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extract the optimal time allocation of weekly hours among work, sleep, sports, and internet use for 16 different demographic groups. Design/methodology/approach The agent wishes to minimize the gap between his or her actual and optimal allocation for each...

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The rich or the poor: who gains from public education spending in Ghana?

Gaddah, Mawuli; Munro, Alistair; Quartey, Peter - In: International Journal of Social Economics 42 (2015) 2, pp. 112-131

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the incidence of public education subsidies in Ghana. Since the late 1990s, Ghana’s government has increasingly recognized human capital as key to alleviating poverty and income inequality, causing dramatic increases of government...

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Production and scale efficiency of maize farming households in South-Western Nigeria

Karimov, Aziz; Amoke Awotide, Bola; Timothy Amos, Taiwo - In: International Journal of Social Economics 41 (2014) 11, pp. 1087-1100

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate production and scale efficiency of maize producing farms in South … efficiency improvements in the existence of the current maize production technology. It also finds several socio …-economic variables such as, off-farm work, education, extension services and credit, which positively impact on technical efficiency of …

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