Purpose - this paper adopts the mean-variance approach in optimizing portfolios within the Colombian capital market, a setting full of complications such as lack of liquidity and market concentration. It delivers actionable messages for emerging market stakeholders and formulates guidance aimed...

This study identifies Mexican sugarcane-planting micro-regions with different productive potential (PP), technical efficiency (TE) and poverty, to propose targeted impact investments. Central to our analysis are three innovative approaches: estimating a Stochastic Production Frontier (SPF) model...