The regional growth of the goods and services trade has placed greater pressure on the ports of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) members, especially in the developing countries. The purpose of this study is to apply the generalized metafrontier Malmquist productivity index (gMMPI) to compare the port productivity of developed countries (DCs) and developing countries (LDCs) in APEC. ...

This paper presents an analysis of technical efficiency and technology gap ratio (TGR) in greenhouse cucumber in Fars Province, Iran. Cucumber production was chosen for this study for the reason that greenhouse productions in this provincemainly have focused on this product. The data used in this study was obtained from a random sample of 127 greenhouses in Fars Province for 2010 to 2011. Metaf...

At present, China’s industrial economy is facing a severe problem of green transformation, so the measurement total-factor efficiency has become one research hot spots. Combining Shephard’s distance function and metafrontier model, this study constructs parametric model in consideration technology heterogeneity. Stochastic analysis, which controls individual effects, used to estimate efficiency...

Food health and wellness has become increasingly important for consumers, this inevitably caused growth in the dietetic food manufacturing sector. This paper examines technical inefficiency of firms five major producing European countries (France, Italy, Norway, Poland Spain) period 2009–2017. To account sluggish adjustment capital, we employed a dynamic production framework within nonparametri...

This research addresses the problem of CO 2 , CH 4 and N O emissions in EU for 2008–2018 period, their contributing factors, through extensive complex analysis. The incubated manuscript answers question whether new state members managed to catch up with old regarding technology innovation mitigation from agriculture activities. methodology used includes Tapio decoupling index metafrontier non-r...

Purpose In this study, the impact of owner-operator and non-owner operator rice mills on productive efficiency is investigated. Design/methodology/approach Primary data collected from a survey 111 in Mwea region Kenya are used. A metafrontier approach employed to measure overall technical which decomposed into managerial organisational efficiency. Findings The results reveal no significant diff...

The study analysed the technical efficiency and technology gap ratio in cocoa production Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to select 390 farmers from three zones where is commercially grown Separate stochastic frontier models were estimated for Kwara, Edo Ondo States, along with a metafrontier model obtain alternative estimates efficiencies of different states. Subsequently, Tobi...