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Assessing technical efficiency in traditional olive grove systems: a directional metadistance function approach
Beltrán-Esteve, Mercedes - In: Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales 13 (2013) 2
Olive growing is the main agricultural activity in Andalusia, although the systems used are far from homogenous. Indeed, technological and natural characteristics have led to the implementation of several growing systems. Our goal is to analyze the efficiency of the two most important systems in...
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Sensitivity of Technical Efficiency Estimates to Estimation Methods: An Empirical Comparison of Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches
de-Graft Acquah, Henry - In: APSTRACT: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce 08 (2014) 1
Analysis (DEA) and the parametric Corrected Ordinary Least Squares (COLS) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) approaches …€™s test suggests significant differences in means between efficiency scores from different methods. In general the DEA and SFA … the DEA have the smallest variability when compared with the SFA and COLS. There exists a strong positive correlation …
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Estimating the Efficiency of Maize Farmers in Ghana
Sienso, Gifty; Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Amegashie, … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
A lot of investment has been made in the agricultural sector of Ghana to increase agricultural production through the introduction of new technologies. However, it has been observed that despite efforts being made by the government through the introduction of new varieties of maize the...
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On-Farm and Off-farm Works: Complement or Substitute? Evidence from Rural Nigeria
Babatunde, Raphael O. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
Farming as a primary source of income has failed to guarantee sufficient livelihood for most farming households in developing countries, and agricultural development policies have largely produced little improvement, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diversification into off-farm activities has...
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The impact of Migrant Remittances on the Technical Efficiency of Arable Crop Farm Households in South Eastern Nigeria
Iheke, Onwuchekwa Raphael; Nwaru, Jude Chukwudi; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
farm size were the significant determinants of technical efficiency of the remittance receiving households; while age …, years of education and farm size were the significant determinants of technical efficiency of the non-remittance receiving …
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RESOURCE UTILIZATION BEHAVIOUR OF CASSAVA PRODUCERS IN EPE AREA OF LAGOS STATE: STOCHASTIC FRONTIER PRODUCTION FUNCTION APPROACH
Ogunbameru, A.; Okeowo, T.A. - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
The Stochastic frontier production function was used to assess the technical efficiency of cassava production in Epe Area of Lagos State, Nigeria. Results show that cassava farmers in the study area experienced increasing positive return-to-scale (2.2675. The study also reveals that a...
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Scenario simulation of small farms’ production efficiencies in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Hosu, Sunday; Sibanda, Melusi; Mushunje, Abbyssinia - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013
Smallholder agriculture is not achieving its pivotal role of attaining food security in developing countries like South Africa. In rural areas, smallholder farmer’s efficiencies have always been hindered mostly by some factors beyond their control such Agro-ecological factors. The challenge is...
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Decentralization of Health and Education in Developing Countries: A Quality-Adjusted Review of the Empirical Literature
Channa, Anila; Faguet, Jean-Paul - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012
We review empirical evidence on the ability of decentralization to enhance preference matching and technical efficiency in the provision of health and education in developing countries. Many influential surveys have found that the empirical evidence of decentralization's effects on service...
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Analyzing the technical efficiency of insurance companies in GCC
Al‐Amri, Khalid; Gattoufi, Said; Al‐Muharrami, Saeed - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 13 (2012) 4, pp. 362-380
analyse the technical efficiency of insurances in the GCC countries using DEA methodology and Malmquist Productivity Index …‐existent – becomes a must to provide insights about the realities and the future trends of the sector. This research uses DEA and MPI to …
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