Technical efficiency
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A preoccupation with content and connectivity in bridging the digital divide obscures the role of information and communication technology in making different ways of knowing and other logics and experiences visible or invisible. How to... more
The duality between measures of economic and technical efficiency has been extensively studied in the productive efficiency analysis. This duality ensures a meaningful interpretation of technical efficiency as economic efficiency... more
This paper analyses the rate of technical progress at Portuguese airports between 1990 and 2000, using a stochastic cost frontier method. A translog frontier model is used and the maximum likelihood estimation technique is employed to... more
This study endeavor is to examine the efficiency in the both life insurance and life Takaful industry of Bangladesh. The study used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to explore the contributions of technical and efficiency changes to the... more
The impact of modern rice varieties (Mvs) adoption over the past few decades has undergone changes in Thailand's rice production. This has led to the increase in average rice yields in both wet and dry seasons. At the present time,... more
This study examined the technical efficiency of cocoa productivity through contract farming in Tanzania for improving livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Probability sampling was used to select 271 respondents (131 respondents from... more
In 1957 Farrell demonstrated how cost inefficiency could be decomposed into two mutually exclusive and exhaustive components: technical and allocative inefficiency. This result is consequence of the fact that—as shown by Shephard—the cost... more
Ethiopia has no capital market, thus, the majority of investment and saving are through the banking system, hence, it is more important for the public as a whole to find out Relative Technical Efficiency of banks. This study aims to... more
This study assesses the technical efficiency and its determinants of maize farmers in the Eastern Region of Ghana. A multi stage random sampling procedure was employed to select 226 maize farmers from the four main geographical areas of... more
Penelitian ini dilaksanakan dengan tujuan untuk: (1) Mengidentifikasi faktor-faktor yang berpengaruh terhadap produksi pada usahatani padi pada lahan sawah irigasi teknis; (2) Mengetahui tingkat efisiensi teknis yang dicapai pada... more
ABSTRAK Penelitian ini bertujuan mengukur dan menganalisis efisiensi teknis pertanian padi di Jawa Timur. Efisiensi teknis dievaluasi dengan menggunakan pendekatan non-parametrik DEA 2 tahap pada 2217 petani padi pada tahun tanam 2008.... more
The biofungicide Phitodoctor evaluation results for impact on alternaria blight considering the potato varieties peculiarities during 2018 - 2019 in area of Western Ukrainian Foreststeppe province were provided. The highest level of... more
This paper aimed at measuring the Technical Efficiency (TE) of small-scale date farms in Baharia oasis using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method, in addition to highlighting the most important pre and post-harvest practices, in... more
This study employed Data Envelopment Analysis approach to assess the technical efficiency of rural SACCOS in Tanzania. The study found out that the technical efficiency of SACCOS varies across and within the regions where the efficiency... more
This paper proposes a nonparametric analysis of the performance of Moroccan commercial banks. The first part of this study focuses on the determination of technical efficiency scores using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). These scores... more