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Measurements of Agricultural Productivity and Efficiency Gains from NAFTA

The primary objective of this study is to empirically determine whether North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has contributed to increased agricultural productivity in any of its member countries.
Allen, Albert J., Li, Tongzhe, Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman, Gunden, Cihat, Shaik, Saleem   +4 more
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Pathways to promote the performance of healthcare financial expenditure from an audit perspective: Evidence from Hunan Province. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ling S, Tang X, Shi Q.
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Efficiency and determinants of science and technology investment in Chinese competitive sports: a provincial DEA-Tobit analysis. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Xia R, Lu S, Zhao L.
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Short-Term Effects of Workstyle Reform for Japanese Doctors on Their Surgical Productivity. [PDF]

Cureus
Nakata Y, Watanabe Y, Ozaki A.
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Threat or strength? Study on the difference of the degree of aging on the efficiency of medical resources utilization in China. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Luo J, Xia KT, Huang CY.
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A Slacks-based Malmquist Productivity Index

A Slacks-based Malmquist Productivity Index
https://www.grips.ac.jp/list/facultyinfo/tone_kaoru/ We propose a new Malmquist productivity index using non-radial slacks-based measures of efficiency. It differs from the traditional one using the radial measure in the definition of the distance function employed.
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Incorporating Environmental Impacts in the Measurement of Agricultural Productivity Growth

Agricultural production is known to have environmental impacts, both adverse and beneficial, and it is desirable to incorporate at least some of these impacts in an environmentally sensitive productivity index.
Lovell, C.A. Knox, Luu, H., Nehring, Richard F., Ball, V. Eldon   +3 more
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Evaluating the impact of uncertainty and risk on the operational efficiency of credit business of commercial banks in China based on dynamic network DEA and Malmquist Index Model.

Heliyon
Chaoqun H, Shen W, Huizhen J, Wei L.
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The spatial effects and influencing factors of inter-provincial health resource allocation efficiency in China. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res
Meng N, Wan Z, Chen H, Pei T, Lin X, Wu D, Chen Y, Meng X.   +7 more
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The biennial Malmquist productivity change index

In this paper we introduce a new Malmquist productivity index that has three attractive features: it avoids linear programming infeasibilities under variable returns to scale, it allows for technical regress, and it does not need to be recomputed when a ...
Lovell, C.A. Knox, Pastor, Jesús T., Asmild, Mette   +2 more
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