Efficiency - Matches

The government should focus on programs that provide targeted subsidies for the poor instead of reviving the Oil Price Stabilization Fund (OPSF) to ad..

The study analyzes the efficiency implications of fiscal decentralization using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It uses health expenditure (in per..

This study presents economic principles that might aid in rightsizing the government bureaucracy. Most of the literature on civil service or public ad..

Inadequate application of nitrogen (N) fertilizer has been identified by the Food Staples Sufficiency Program as a major constraint in achieving rice ..

This study aims to review and assess (i) the sources and uses of funds of state universities and colleges (SUCs); (ii) the impact of the application n..

In view of the long-standing issues and concerns that beset the Philippine system of higher education, the study attempts to evaluate the performance ..

The stochastic frontier model with heterogeneous technical efficiency explained by exogenous variables is augmented with a sparse spatial autoregress..

The efficiency of 119 electric cooperatives in the Philippines from 1990 to 2002 is analyzed using a stochastic frontier model augmented with spatial-..

In the past few years, the government has developed and installed a unique model of performance-based budgeting known as the Organizational Performanc..

Food policy analysts and government policymakers have different views on food security. Those who decide for agriculture in less developed countries e..

Food security remains a major concern among the APEC member economies. A simple and crude exercise shows that the region collectively could supply eac..

This paper has attempted to examine the impacts of competition policy reforms on the efficiency of the Philippine commercial banking system. It uses t..

This Policy Notes looks at the issue of gender concerns in credit cooperatives from a different perspective. Specifically, it looks at the implication..

This paper first examines the extent of cost and profit inefficiencies of the Philippine credit cooperative system using stochastic frontier analysis ..