Economic efficiency of smallholder maize producers in Western Kenya: A DEA meta-frontier analysis

International Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 250-267

  Mulwa, Richard ^a   Emrouznejad, Ali ^b   Muhammad, Lutta ^a  

^a KENYA AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; DEA; Efficiency; Kenya; Maize production; Meta frontier; Tobit analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349189097     PISSN: 17457645     EISSN: 17457653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2009.023284     Document Type: Article

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