This article presents a comprehensive review of frontier studies in the tourism literature. We
discuss the main advantages and disadvantages of the various frontier approaches, in …

Microfinance has played a key role in the fight against exclusion and the promotion of
entrepreneurship in developing countries. An important question today is how to increase …

This paper attempts to analyze the variations in technical efficiency of the individual farmers
of distinct (small, medium and large) size of land holdings and different types (family and …

The literature of data envelopment analysis (DEA) encompasses many surveys, yet all either
emphasize methodologies or do not make a distinction between methodological and …

Multiple production and marketing challenges facing smallholder farmers in developing
countries have resulted in renewed interests of governments, donor agencies and private …

This study examines the impact of agricultural cooperative membership on technical
efficiency (TE) of apple farmers in China. We make novel contributions to the literature by …

The objective of this article is to examine the association between agricultural subsidies and
dairy farm technical efficiency in the European Union, and in so doing we make novel …

The paper examines second stage DEA efficiency analyses, within the context of a
censoring data generating process (DGP) and a fractional data DGP, when efficiency scores …

The formation of agricultural cooperatives has been widely promoted as an agricultural
development policy initiative to help smallholder farmers cope with multiple production and …

Abstract Precision Agriculture Technologies (PATs) are at the core of the fourth revolution in
farming technology, also called Agriculture 4.0. This study evaluates the determinants of …