Economic efficiency of agricultural production in Brazil
This study measures levels of technical, allocative and economic efficiency in agricultural crop production for Brazil in 1995. A nonparametric frontier model (DEA) under constant returns to scale was used. On average, the results suggest that the sector suffers from moderate technical inefficiency...
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| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural
2004-06-01
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| Series: | Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-20032004000200002 |