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Will land transfer always increase technical efficiency in China?—A land cost perspective
Land Use Policy, 2019The increasingly open market in China has ushered significant changes in the Chinese agricultural sector. Most existing research indicates that land transfer improves technical efficiency. However, this study finds that from the perspective of land cost,
Yu Liu +3 more
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Do quality and access to hospital services impact on their technical efficiency?
Omega, 2019Investigating the impact of quality and access to healthcare services on technical efficiency is a hot topic in health economics and healthcare systems management.
D. Ferreira, R. Marques
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The impact of credit on the technical efficiency of maize-producing households in Northern Ghana
Agricultural Finance Review, 2019Purpose Production credit is essential for enhancing the technical efficiency (TE) and the welfare of smallholder farmers in Africa. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of credit on smallholders’ TE using cross-sectional data from 223 ...
Edward Martey +3 more
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Food Policy, 2018
This study examines the impact of agricultural cooperative membership on technical efficiency (TE) of apple farmers in China. We make novel contributions to the literature by employing a recently developed selectivity-corrected stochastic production ...
Wanglin Ma +3 more
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This study examines the impact of agricultural cooperative membership on technical efficiency (TE) of apple farmers in China. We make novel contributions to the literature by employing a recently developed selectivity-corrected stochastic production ...
Wanglin Ma +3 more
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Family farms plus cooperatives in China: Technical efficiency in crop production
Journal of Asian Economics, 2019With the aim of improving rural living standards and strengthening the security of crop production, China has adopted “family farms plus cooperatives” as the preferred mode of organization in agriculture.
T. Gong, G. Battese, R. Villano
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Board gender diversity and the technical efficiency of microfinance institutions: Does size matter?
International Review of Economics and Finance, 2019Does board gender diversity promote technical efficiency? Does the size of a microfinance institution (MFI) moderate the relation between board gender diversity and technical efficiency? This paper empirically addresses these two important questions with
Michael Adusei
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Production risk and technical efficiency of fish farms in Ghana
Aquaculture, 2018This paper adopts the stochastic frontier model with flexible risk to analyze production risk, technical efficiency and its determinants of fish farms in four regions of Ghana including Greater Accra, Volta, Western and Ashanti regions. The study employs
E. Onumah, J. Onumah, Gideon E. Onumah
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Water-use technical efficiency and income: Evidence from China's South-North Water Transfer Project
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022Jichuan Sheng
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