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Efficiency, Productivity and Technology Comparison for Farms in Central and Western Europe : The Case of Field Crop and Dairy Farming in Hungary and France

Latruffe, Laure; Fogarasi, József; Desjeux, Yann - 2012

This paper investigates the differences in technical efficiency and productivity change, and the technology gaps …

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Measuring National Innovation Systems Efficiency – A Review of DEA Approach

Kotsemir, Maxim - 2013

The paper reviews the application of the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method for measuring the efficiency of … cross-country analysis of NIS efficiency with DEA technique. In its main part the paper analyses the specifications of DEA … studies on cross-country analysis of national innovation systems efficiency using DEA method pay little attention to profound …

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Malthusian stagnation is efficient

Córdoba Muñoz, Juan C.; Liu, Xiying - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 415-460

This article studies socially optimal allocations, from the point of view of a benevolent social planner, in environments characterized by fixed resources, endogenous fertility, and full information. Individuals in our environment are fully rational and altruistic toward their descendants. Our...

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A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach to the Assessment of Natural Parks' Economic Efficiency and Sustainability. The Case of Italian National Parks

Bosetti, Valentina; Locatelli, Gianni - 2013

technique specifically developed to assess the relative efficiency of decision-making units. In particular, the objective of the … discussed methodology is to assess the relative efficiency of the management units of the protected area and to indicate how it … efficiency of natural parks' management not only internally (comparing the performance of the park to itself in time) but also by …

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Regional efficiency and total factor productivity change for small and medium sorghum producers in Zambia : a slacks-based measure and Malmquist index approach

Chanda, Obed; Umetsu, Chieko - In: World development sustainability 4 (2024), pp. 1-13

Zambia's efforts to promote countrywide production of sorghum is backed by a number of apropos factors. It is not only an adaptive response to the climate change challenge, but also a dietary diversity improvement measure, to achieve food and nutrition security. Further, improved sorghum...

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A comparison of stochastic frontier approaches to estimating inefficiency and total factor productivity : an application to Irish dairy farming

Carroll, James; Newman, Carol; Thorne, Fiona - 2007

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Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry

Bonny, Sylvie - 2017

In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and...

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SAGA GIS for Computing Multispectral Vegetation Indices by Landsat TM for Mapping Vegetation Greenness

Lemenkova, Polina - 2021

The study presents a comparative analysis of eight Vegetation Indices (VIs) used to examine vegetation greenness over the northern coasts of Iceland. The geographical extent of the study area is set by the coordinates of the two fjords, Eyjafjörður and Skagafjörður, notable for their...

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Towards certified carbon footprints of products - a road map for data production - Climate Bonus project report (WP3)

Perrels, Adriaan; Usva, Kirsi; Hongisto, Mikko; … - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2009

This report is a part of a series of reports from the Climate Bonus project. The report illustrates the basic structure of a system that could produce strict and reliable data needed for generating product-oriented carbon footprints in Finland. It also represents a road map for developing the...

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O mercado de trabalho rural : evolução recente, composição da renda e dimensão regional

Diniz, Bernardo P. Campolina; Silveira, Fernando Gaiger da - 2009

This paper focuses on the changes in income and activity sectors on the economically active rural population (EAP) between 1996 and 2006. Besides a brief introduction, its divide into more tree parts. The first part analyzes the changes in income and activity sectors based on the National...

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