Three hundred smallholders near Malang in East Java were surveyed of whom 150 wereparticipating in a hybrid seed contract with Pioneer Hybrid International Inc, an AmericanMNC that has been contracting in the area since 1986. The objectives of the study were todetermine whether the contract...

Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutes provide for the majority of Australian government funded courses in vocational education. In this study we used institutional financial, educational, demographic and employed stochastic frontier analysis to develop two distinct efficiency...

Budgetary constraints on the public purse have led Australian Federal and State governments to focus increasingly on the efficiency of public institutions, including Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutes. In this study, we define efficiency as the relationship between financial and...