Determinants of technical and allocative efficiency of micro-enterprises: Firm-level evidence from Nigeria

African Development Review

Volumn 15, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 353-395

  Ajibefun, Igbekele A ^a,b   Daramola, Adebiyi G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY; METALS INDUSTRY; MICROENTERPRISE; MILLING; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

AFRICA; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 33749486206     PISSN: 10176772     EISSN: 14678268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8268.2003.00077.x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Adejugbe, M.O.A. (1995), 'Macroeconomic Policies and the Industrial Sector', in A. Iwayemi (ed.), Macroeconomic Policy Issues in an Open Developing Economy: A Case Study of Nigeria. National Centre for Economic Management and Administration (NCEMA), Ibadan.
2. Aigner, D., C.A.K. Lovell and P. Schmidt (1977), 'Formulation and Estimation of Stochastic Frontier Production Function Models', Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 6, pp. 21-37.
3. Battese, G.E. (1992), 'Frontier Production Functions and Technical Efficiency: A Survey of Empirical Applications in Agricultural Economics', Agricultural Economics, Vol. 7, pp. 185-208.
4. Battese, G.E. and T.J. Coelli (1993), 'Frontier Production Functions, Technical Efficiency and Panel Data: With Application to Paddy Farmers in India', Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 3, pp. 153-208.
5. Battese, G.E. and T.J. Coelli (1995), 'A Model for Technical Inefficiency Effect in Stochastic Frontier Production Function for Panel Data', Empirical Economics, Vol. 20, pp. 325-32.
6. Battese, G.E. and G.S. Corra (1977), 'Estimation of a Production Frontier Model with Application to the Pastoral Zone of Eastern Australia', Australian Journal of Agricultural Economic, Vol. 6, pp. 21-37.
7. Battese, G.E., S.J. Malik and M.A. Gill (1996), 'An Investigation of Technical Inefficiencies of Production of Wheat Farmers in Four Districts of Pakistan', Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 37-49.
8. Coelli, T.J. (1996), 'A Guide to FRONTIER Version 4.1: A Computer Programme for Stochastic Frontier Production and Cost Function Estimation', Mimeo, Department of Econometrics, University of New England, Arimidale.
9. Coelli, T.J. (1995), 'Recent Developments in Frontier Modelling and Efficiency Measurement', Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 39, pp. 219-45.
10. Farrell, M.J. (1957), The Measurement of Productive Efficiency', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, Vol. 120, pp. 253-90.
11. Forsund, F.R., C.A.K. Lovell and S.S. Schmidt (1980), 'A Survey of Frontier Production Function and their Relationship to Efficiency Measurement', Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 13, pp. 5-25.
12. Griliches, Z. and D.W. Jorgenson (1969), 'The Explanation of Productivity Change', Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 17-40.
13. Huang, C.J. and J.T. Lui (1994), 'A Non-neutral Stochastic Frontier Production Function', Journal of Productivity Analysis, Vol. 5, pp. 171-80.
14. Iwayemi, A. (1994), 'Perspectives and Problems of Economic Development in Nigeria: 1996-1990, CEAR Monograph Series No. 1, CEAR.
15. Kumbhakar, S.C., S. Ghosh and J.T. McGuckin (1991), 'A Generalized Production Frontier Approach for Estimating Determinants of Inefficiency in US Dairy Farms', Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 9, pp. 279-86.
16. Kodde, D.A. and F.C. Palm (1986), 'Wald Criteria for Jointly Testing Equality and Inequality Restrictions', Econometrica, Vol. 54, pp. 1243-48.
17. Krugman, P. (1984), 'Import Protection as Export Promotion: Internal Competition in the Presence of Oligopolies and Economies of Scale', in H. Kierkowski (ed.), Monopolistic Competition and International Trade, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
18. Meeusen, W. and J. van den Broeck (1977), 'Efficiency Estimation from Cobb-Douglas Production Functions with Composed Error', International Economic Review, Vol. 18, pp. 435-44.
19. Nishimizu, M. and S. Robinson (1988), 'Trade Policy and Productivity in Semi-industrialized Countries', Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 16, pp. 177-206.
20. Olaoye, A.O. (1985), 'Total Factor Manufacturing Trends in Nigerian Manufacturing', Nigerian Journal of Economics and Social Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 37-55.
21. Oyejide, T.A. (1975), Industrialization and Trade Policy in Nigeria, Macmillan Publications, Ibadan, Nigeria.
22. Pack, H. (1988), 'Industrialization and Trade', in H. B. Chenery and T.N. Srinivasan (eds.), Handbook of Development Economics, North-Holland, Amsterdam.
23. Pitt, M.M. and L.F. Lee (1982), 'The Measurement and Sources of Technical Inefficiency in the Indonesian Weaving Industry', Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 9, pp. 43-64.
24. Reifschneider, D. and R. Stevenson (1991), 'Systematic Departures from the Frontier: A Framework for the Analysis of Firm Inefficiency', International Economic Review, Vol. 32, pp. 715-23.
25. Roberts, M. and J. Tybout (1997), 'Size Rationalization and Trade Exposure in Reply to: Developing Countries', in R. Baldwin (ed.), Empirical Studies of Commercial Policy, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
26. World Development Report (1990) Development Indicators.