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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"scale efficiency"”.
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Assessment of technical and scale efficiency of public clinics in eSwatini
… study investigates the level of technical and scale efficiency of a nationally representative sample of 65 randomly selected public clinics in Eswatini using Data Envelopment Analysis. The DEA estimates indicate that 42 clinics (64.7%) were technically inefficient, with an average technical …
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Technical and scale efficiency in Zambia's agro-progressing industry: a firm level data envelope analysis of the 2011/2012 manufacturing census
… algorithm to construct measures of technical and scale efficiency for a sample of 115 firms using the 2011/2012 Economic Census data. Finally, we examine the effect of firm attributes on the firm's technical and scale efficiency using the Tobit regression model. The results reveal that there are …
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Measuring hospital efficiency using DEA an investigation into the relationship between scale and efficiency within the South African private hospital environment
This paper investigates the relationship between scale and efficiency through the application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to a set of South African private hospitals over the three year period from 2007 to 2009. As part of the investigation, this paper provides a description of the current …
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
… local fragmentation with a consequent lack of scale economies. Local governments continued to have strong incentives to retain the collection of revenue from enterprises in their region even after the reforms. Decentralized fiscal and financial systems, particularly, the confusion between tax …
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Chinese iron and steel industry in transition : toward market mechanisms and economic efficiency
… local fragmentation with a consequent lack of scale economies. Local governments continued to have strong incentives to retain the collection of revenue from enterprises in their region even after the reforms. Decentralized fiscal and financial systems, particularly, the confusion between tax …
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An investigation into the effect of non-performing loans on the profitability of commercial banks in Namibia
… of bank size on profitability suggests possible scale efficiency as a result of the expansion in bank size. The study further recommends that, banks must continue to closely monitor inflation to stabilise the economy. Commercial banks must show resilience to learn from recent experiences, …
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United States Meat Goat Production Economic Performance Measures: A Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis
… is needed concerning the drivers of production efficiency, optimum size of operation, and scope economies in the industry. A nationwide mail survey of U.S. meat goat producers who advertise their meat goat production via the internet for this efficiency analysis was conducted. Costs and returns …
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Advanced Methods for the Simulation of Radar Sounder Planetary Data
… by a fundamental dichotomy between computational efficiency and physical fidelity. On the one hand, rigorous numerical simulation methods offer the high accuracy required for modeling complex small-scale scattering interactions but incur in prohibitive computational costs for mission-scale …
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The Determinants of Efficiency, Profitability and Stability in the Banking Sector: A Comparative Study of Islamic, Conventional and Socially Responsible Banks
… study aims to investigate the determinants of efficiency, profitability and stability in the banking sector across the world over the period 2005-2012. In this study, efficiency is measured using data envelopment analysis (DEA), which is divided into technical efficiency (TE), pure technical …