Credit is a crucial factor in agricultural development. This study explores the reality in the commonly practiced sources by farmers for acquiring agricultural credit, its uses and environmental and socio-economic determinants. A total of 236 rice farmers with agricultural credit activity at...

This research examines regional government performance in Indonesia's provinces after the implementation of fiscal decentralization in 2001 using a two-stage approach. First, extensive input and output data are utilized to measure government productivity and efficiency indices using a Malmquist...

Existing studies have focused on the negative impact of inefficient resource allocation on energy performance in China's factor market, but neglected to further explore the underlying reason for this phenomenon from the perspective of market segmentation. In this paper, the epsilon-based measure...