Due to increasing water scarcity, accelerating industrialization and urbanization, efficiency of irrigation water use in Northern China needs urgent improvement. Based on a sample of 347 wheat growers in the Guanzhong Plain, this paper simultaneously estimates a production function, and its...

This article aims at evaluating and analysing the production efficiency of farms (FF) in the locality of Zoetele, South Cameroon. From a sample of 62 FF, we first estimate a model of Data Envelopment Analysis with constant and variable returns to scale, then a censored TOBIT model enabling...

Предложены рекомендации (стратегия управления факторами неэффективности) экономическому объекту, занимающемуся производством, по организации операций в целях...

This paper develops a port productivity and efficiency analysis of all developing regions between 2000 and 2010, using both parametric and nonparametric approaches. From a unique dataset -our sample covers 70 developing countries, 203 ports, and 1,750 data points-, we carry out an analysis of...

The study examines the technical efficiency and source of inefficiency in non-contract cotton production in Katsina State, Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 184 contract cotton farmers. Research primary data was collected with the aid of structured questionnaire. The...

This study has measured firm-specific time invariant technical efficiency in the Indian automobile industry during 2004–06 using a suitably constructed stochastic production frontier. The one-sided inefficiency random variable is assumed to be truncated normal with a variable mode which...

Using a panel of French crop farms, we test whether farmers' technical efficiency (TE) under conventional practices is a significant driver of the conversion to organic farming. We find that the probability of conversion depends on the TE preceding the conversion, but that the direction of the...

Since the mid-1990s, China’s state leadership has adopted a policy of nurturing the competitiveness of large state-owned industrial enterprises. The implications of this policy have been a matter of debate in the literature. This paper seeks to provide some useful input into the debate....