This study presents an evaluation of the relative efficiency of sixteen container ports in Sub-Sahara Africa using three DEA models namely CCR, BCC and Super-Efficiency over the year 2012. The CCR and BCC models are used to estimate the technical and scale efficiency while the super-efficiency technique provides a ranking of efficient ports. The efficiency results indicate that on average the i...

INTRODUCTION Health systems in developing countries including Ghana are faced with critical resource constraints in pursuing the goal of improving the health status of the population. The constrained ability to adequately meet health care needs is exacerbated by inefficiency in the health care systems, especially within public health centres. METHODS The study used Data Envelopment Analysis (...

While scientific studies have not reached a consensus on the methodology for examining Technical Efficiency (or Inefficiency), influence of regions appears to be important efficiency scores. Therefore, this research aims investigate empirical procedures achievement more robust results in analysis productive efficiency, as well evaluate effect location farms such efficiency. The goal was check w...

Cassava farming in Central Lampung Regency has lower productivity than its potential. Low is one of the essential indicators that are not efficient yet. This study investigates income level cassava farming, technical efficiency and factors causing inefficiency, also economic farming. research was conducted center, Terbanggi Besar District Terusan Nunyai District, Lampung. Data were collected fr...

This paper proposes the network data envelopment analysis (DEA) model accounting for negative externalities and applies it for decomposition of profit inefficiency in the biomass-agriculture circular system (Bio-AG system). A circular structure of the Bio-AG system which is different from the previously applied network structures is assumed. Since the negative externalities (i.e., pollutant emi...

This study demarcates cost-inefficiency in Chinese banks into X-inefficiency and rent-seeking-inefficiency. A protected banking market not only encourages weak management and X-inefficiency but also public ownership and state directed lending encourages moral hazard and bureaucratic rent seeking. This paper uses bootstrap non-parametric techniques to estimate measures of X-inefficiency and rent...

Vegetable production is one important agricultural product in crop after wheat and potatoes Mongolia. Currently, household dominates total vegetable (approximately 80 percent). Thus, the purposes of this paper were to measure technical efficiency determine influencing factors inefficiency on Mongolia by using Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Primary data was collected from randomly selected ...