Starting in the 1970’s, the Brazilian agricultural sector has experienced an important process of modernization, whose principal effects include advances in technological progress and gains in productivity. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze technological progress and total productivity growth in the Brazilian agricultural sector during the period from 1970 to 1996. The methodolo...

When considering the linkage between innovation and productivity, the relationship is often termed as the knowledge production function in the endogenous growth literature. In this article, we approach the issues involved through the aspects of the standard neoclassical production theory. The advantage is that the basic properties required of ordinary production function can be employed to infe...

This study examines the relative technical efficiency of 12 hospitals in Eastern Ethiopia. Using six-year-round panel data for the period between 2007/08 and 2012/13, this study examines the technical efficiency, total factor productivity, and determinants of the technical inefficiency of hospitals. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) and DEA- based Malmquist productivity index used to estimate rel...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the productivity level of family takaful in Malaysia and Indonesia from 2014 2019. Productivity can support corporate sustainability, which is one company’s goals. Design/methodology/approach The measurement this involved applying Malmquist Index (MPI) method. input variables used consisted equity, total expenses investment. output profit investment income...

The study examines the changes to total factor productivity of Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. Using Data Envelopment Analysis with bootstrap to construct a Malmquist index, bank productivity is measured and decomposed into technical progress and efficiency. The results suggest an inconsistent growth pattern for banks between 1998 and 2007 driven mainly by efficiency gains in the immediat...

Considering that the real estate industry is a critical to promote economy in China, it necessary measure performance. However, few studies about performance evaluation of China’s have focused on production process. To fill this gap, paper proposes two-stage framework investigate productivity 30 sample provinces mainland China from 2008 2015, based common-weight global Malmquist index (MPI). Th...