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Incorporating Environmental Impacts in the Measurement of Agricultural Productivity Growth [PDF]

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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.
Ball, V. Eldon   +3 more
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Investigating Productivity Changes in Medical Records Departments of Tehran University of Medical Sciences Hospitals Using Malmquist Index

open access: yesمدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2011
Introduction: Limited resources and rapid increase of costs, makes productivity improvement in hospitals considerably important. This study tries to measure the productivity in medical records departments of selected hospitals and provide a comprehensive
Hosein Dargahi   +4 more
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Human Capital, Innovation, and Productivity Growth: Tales from Latin America and Caribbean [PDF]

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Why have Latin American and Caribbean countries (LAC countries) not replicated Western economic success? We investigate the reasons behind the economic stagnation of LAC countries for the past four decades.
Yoruk, Baris
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PRODUCTIVITY OF UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS IN POLAND: A MALMQUIST-INDEX APPROACH

open access: yesEkonomika, 2010
The purpose of this article is to present the result of productivity analysis of university hospitals in Poland. The hospital sector, and especially the tertiary hospital subsector, are a large consumer of scarce health care resources, and it is of ...
Justyna Rój
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Evaluating target achievements in the public sector: An application or a rare non-parametric DEA and Malmquist indices [PDF]

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This paper provides an assessment of the extent to which targets set by a public authority are achieved by its operational units. A rare DEA framework and its subsequent Malmquist indices are applied on data comprising 19 units over a four year period of
James Odeck
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Efficiency and Productivity Measurement in Research Sector of Iranian Medical Sciences Universities Using Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Index

open access: yesمجله اپیدمیولوژی ایران, 2019
Background and Objectives: Improving the efficiency and productivity of the higher education, especially in the field of research on health sciences, is one of the characteristics of sustainable development in todaychr('39')s societies.
MH Mehrolhassani   +4 more
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Malmquist Productivity Index Decompositions: A Unifying Framework [PDF]

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In two widely cited but unpublished working papers, Simar and Wilson (1998) and Zofío and Lovell (1998) proposed an alternative decomposition of the Malmquist Productivity Index, which retained what seemed to be the strongholds of previous proposals with
Zofío, José Luis
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- CONVERGENCE IN OECD COUNTRIES: TECHNICAL CHANGE, EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY [PDF]

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The aim of this study is to analyze labor productivity convergence in the countries of the OECD over the period 1965-90. A non-parametric frontier approach is used to calculate the Malmquist productivity index.
Joaquín Maudos Villarroya   +2 more
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