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Participation in Organizations, Technical Efficiency and Territorial Differences: A Study of Small Wheat Farmers in Chile
(Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIA, 2011)
The Emerging Soybean Production Frontier in Southern Africa: Conservation Challenges and the Role of South-South Telecouplings
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2016-01)
Soybean expansion has been a strong driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss in South America (SAM). Here, we highlight strong similarities in environmental, institutional, and other contextual conditions among SAM ...
Education production efficiency: evidence from Brazilian universities
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2013-03)
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the efficiency of higher education institutions in Brazil with emphasis on its determinants, taking particularly into account the relative efficiency of public and private institutions ...
O efeito do fim do Acordo sobre Têxteis e Vestuários para a indústria brasileira: uma análise a partir da fronteira de produção estocástica
(2013)
This article investigates the productivity and production function of thirteen large Brazilian textile and clothing companies before and after the end of the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (AVT) that abolished import ...
São Paulo e os sentidos da colonização
(Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho, 2020-08-07)
Under the perspective of the History of Economy, this article contextualizes the historiography of the proposal of the dossier History of colonization in the territory of Sao Paulo: dynamics and transformations (16th and ...
Technical efficiency of thermal power units through a stochastic frontier
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Medellín). Facultad de Minas., 2015-05-01)
This work presents a model to obtain a stochastic frontier production function of a Mexican power generation company. The stochastic frontier allows us to evaluate the technical efficiency of an energy producer according ...
Technological Change and Technical Efficiency for Diary Farms in Three Countries of South America
(Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIA, 2008)
Discourse of development in Patagonia-Aysen: conservation and protection of nature as the renewed devices of colonization. Chile, XX-XXI centuries
(UNIV BARCELONA, DEPT GEOGRAFIA HUMANA, 2014)
This paper proposes that the territory of Patagonia-Aysen (Chile) is not naturally a peripheral area but - instead- the result of a historical-geographical production that constructed it in a peripheral spatiality. That ...