This study was undertaken to analyze the effect of land tenure system practices and farm fragmentation on technical efficiency of rice farmers under the Dadin-Kowa Irrigation Scheme (DKIS) and made use of cross-sectional data from a survey conducted on 284 rice farmers selected by multi-staged...

In the era of big data, the sizes of samples to be evaluated are expanding, but this situation also hinders the use of data envelopment analysis models. Furthermore, only efficient decision-making units (DMUs) can be used to evaluate the efficiency of DMUs. Thus, finding these efficient DMUs has...

The widespread replacement of gross receipt tax (GRT) with value-added tax (VAT) is an important phenomenon in the past half-century. Theory predicts that such tax reforms reduce vertical integration, increase production efficiency, and improve industrial structure. We exploit the tax reform...

Purpose – This study aims to unlock the path of growth for sustainable economic development and accomplish the government’s vision 2030 by ameliorating the productivity of the manufacturing sector in Laos.Design/methodology/approach – This study applied cross-sectional data of 2,009 firms...

This study aims to measure the productivity and factors which affect the productivity of Islamic life insurance companies in Indonesia for the 2014-2019 periods.This study employed a Two-Stage Malmquist Productivity Index. The first stage was to measure productivity using the Malmquist...

This paper examines the effect of new medical technology (robotic surgery) on efficiency gains and productivity changes for surgical treatment in patients with prostate cancer. We consider three interrelated surgical technologies within the English National Health System: robotic, laparoscopic...